Chinese Immigrants

Unit 2 Remediation

Instructions

You will go through the most commonly missed questions and content from the previous unit. You will read about the content then answer a test question.

Success on this will result in improvement on your test score.

European immigrants were offered quick and easy admission to the US. Most Europeans were recruited by employers to immigrate.

European Immigrants

Asian immigrants faced severe racism, discrimination, and harsh restrictions trying to enter the United States.

Asian Immigrants

Asian vs. European Immigrants

Multiple Choice

How did the experiences of Chinese immigrants differ from those of the “New Immigrants” from Southern and Eastern Europe?

• Chinese immigrants were welcomed and integrated easily, while New Immigrants faced legal barriers.
• Both groups faced the same level of discrimination and exclusion in society.
• New Immigrants had no opportunities for assimilation, unlike Chinese immigrants.
• Chinese immigrants experienced legal exclusion and severe discriminated against

Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism is a theory that applies Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" ideology to social and economic situations.

Robber Barons, such as Andrew Carnegie, would use Social Darwinism to justify their business's illegal and illicit activities against their competition.

Multiple Choice

Which economic theory was based on “survival of the fittest?”

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Keynesianism
• Social Darwinism

Vertical Integration

Vertical Integration is a business strategy where a business would want to control each step in the process of producing, creating, and selling a product.

Example: Five Guy's owning the farm that raises the cattle that become beef for their burgers -> then owning the factory that processes the meat ->owning the trucks to ship the processed meat to their stores ->then owning the stores to sell their burgers.

Multiple Choice

These are steps that are preformed by a single company:

Hog Farms --> Slaughterhouse and preparing pork --> Transporting pork products to a national market via refrigerated railroad cars

Which of the following best describes the diagram?

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

• social darwinism

• protestant ethic

Nativists were anti immigrants. They believed that immigrants would come in and take jobs away from American born workers. They passed laws that restricted immigration into the US (Especially for Chinese immigrants)

Nativism

Multiple Choice

In the cartoon titled: Looking Backward, the men standing on a dock facing a man coming onshore represent

• nativists

• immigrants

• congressmen

• abolitionists

Horizontal Integration is a business strategy where a business will buy out its competition that is doing the same thing as them.

Example: John Rockefeller buying out other oil companies

Horizontal Integration

Multiple Choice

What is horizontal integration?

• a strategy of acquiring or merging with competitors to enhance profit

• A technique for diversifying product lines through innovation.
• A strategy focused on improving internal processes and efficiency.
• A method of increasing production capacity by expanding facilities.

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