Immigration Quiz

Community center for immigrants founded by Jane Addams that provided services such as education, medical treatment, and job training.

• Full House

• Null House

• Hull House

• Dull House

Small, run-down apartments that barely met minimal standards where immigrants lived.

• Tenements

• Elephants

• Ghetto

• Relevance

Poor city neighborhoods where people shared the same ethnicity, culture, and religion.

• Burrito

• House

• Tenement

• Ghetto

Religious freedom, economic opportunities, escaping war.

• Reasons for increased emigration

• Reasons for decreased immigration

• Reasons for increased immigration

Act passed in 1882 by Congress that strictly limited the number of Chinese workers entering the United States.

• Irish Exclusion Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• American Exclusion Act

• German Exclusion Act

European immigrant processing point on the East Coast.

• Angel Island

• A Random Island in the Sea

• Ethel Island

• Ellis Island

Mostly Asian immigrant processing point on the West Coast.

• Chinese Processing Center

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Alcatraz

The Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty included the line: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." What did it represent?

• America letting anyone in.

• America's policy of only letting Irish in.

• America's policy of embracing people from all over the world.

• America keeping people from immigrating.

Famine and starvation in Ireland that led to mass migration to US from 1840s-1850s.

• Italian Potato Famine

• Irish Potato Famine

• Irish Corn Famine

• Chinese Soybean Famine

TWO predominant immigrant groups that came to America in the 19th century in mass numbers and are remembered for helping to build the railroads?

• Chinese

• German

• Italian

• Irish

• Canada