Immigration Practice Quiz

Since the Pilgrims, immigrants had always come to America for economic opportunity and

• religious freedom.

• a good education.

• help from police.

Most European immigrants traveled to the United States

• in a difficult journey by railroad car.

• in first class accommodations.

• in the steerage section of steamships.

Most new immigrants lived in cities because they

• needed to be close to their jobs.

• wanted to meet many Americans.

• were eager to abandon their traditions.

Which of these immigrants was least likely to encounter religious and language prejudice?

• a Jew from Russia

• a Catholic from Mexico

• a Protestant from Great Britain

“The foreigner coming to these shores is more impressed at first by our skyscrapers. . . . In the daylight they are ugly. . . . But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul than anything man has dreamed since the Arabian nights.”

--Mark Twain

Why would a foreigner be impressed by the skyscrapers?

• They are ugly in the daylight.

• They were built in the river.

• They were towering, tall and beautiful.

According to the graph, when did immigrants from southern and eastern Europe start outnumbering immigrants from northern and western Europe?

• 1860

• 1885

• 1895

Look at the map. On what island did most Chinese or Japanese immigrants go through processing before entering the United States in the late 1800s?

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Galveston Island

Why did Chinese immigrants face violence on the West Coast?

• Whites blamed them for taking “white” jobs.

• Ranchers and railroads wanted their land.

• They held protests to demand voting rights.

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

• had experience with democratic governments.

• arrived primarily from Germany, Sweden, and Norway.

• were culturally different from previous immigrants.

The two “old” immigrant ethnic groups who were most harshly treated in the mid to late nineteenth century were the

• Spanish and Mexicans.

• Irish and Chinese.

• Germans and Jews.