Immigration & Prohibition

Immigration & Prohibition

Unit 5, Week 2, Monday & Tuesday

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason that the U.S. government encouraged immigration during this time?

• our lack of farmers

• for factory workers

• to build our army

• to add more teachers

Multiple Choice

What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

• Mixing Bowl
• Angel Food Cake
• Fish Tank
• Melting Pot

Multiple Choice

Which group of immigrants to this country saw the worst Nativist reactions to their arrival?

• British

• Italians

• Chinese

• French

Open Ended

Explain why Immigration dropped from an average of over 900,000 between 1900-1915 to below 460,000 between 1915-1924. (Use 2-3 complete sentences)

Multiple Choice

Required literacy tests, made categories of unacceptable people, & banned immigration from Asia

• Emergency Quota Act (1924 Immigration Act)

• DACA

• Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

• Immigration Act of 1917

Multiple Choice

Established a system to limit immigration by having max number of immigrants per country

• Emergency Quota Act (1924 Immigration Act)

• Bracero Program

• Executive Order 13780

• Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)

Multiple Choice

Nativism is

• the idea that Native Americans should have more land
• the distrust of immigrants by Americans
• a fear of radical ideas
• hatred of all people by Native Americans

Multiple Choice

Which law began limiting the flow if immigrants when it was passed in 1924?

• National Origins Act

• Emergency Quota Act

• Dawes Act

• Teapot Dome Act

Open Ended

List the three main reasons on why United States Immigration began to decline in the 1920s.

Multiple Choice

What did the 18th Amendment accomplish?

• It granted all men the right to vote

• It granted all women the right to vote

• It banned the sale and consumption of alcohol (prohibition)

• It provided equal rights for women of all races

Multiple Choice

Which of the following represents the best definition for temperance movement?

• a widespread effort by few people to increase the consumption of alcohol

• a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of alcohol

• a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of tobacco

• the fight for equal rights such as education,voting, and workplace rights for women

Multiple Choice

Who was FOR Prohibition

• Women's Christian Temperance Union

• Al Capone

• Soldiers

• America

Multiple Choice

What is one of the reasons Prohibition was created ?

• Reduce crime and corruptions

• Make peace

• Religion

• War

Multiple Choice

How Did Criminals Take Advantage of the Prohibition?

• Speakeasies and Bootlegging

• Kidnappings

• Robberies

Multiple Choice

What is the motivation to prohibit alcohol in this poster?

• It can prevent suicide.

• It will limit neglect and child abuse.

• It will stop men from spending too much money at bars.

• It will limit domestic abuse and divorce.

Multiple Choice

What is the motivation to prohibit alcohol in this poster?

• It can prevent suicide

• It will prevent abuse and neglect

• It will prevent boating accidents

• It will lead to more productivity at work