Final exam review- immigration

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?

• It was illegal to live anywhere else
• They didn't want to be in the US
• It made their adjustment to their new life easier
• No other housing was avaliable

How did prejudice create problems for some immigrants?

• Major companies wanted to hire them
• People laughed at their accents
• Were not allowed jobs because of their race/ethnicity
• Immigrant children were not allowed to attend school

Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?

• US passed a law limiting immigration 
• People didn't want to come to the US anymore
• There was a war in the US
• Countries wouldn't allow citizens to leave for the US

Where were most immigrants from?

• Italy
• Slavic Countries
• Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico
• Europe

Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...

• They didn't want them to bring them into the US
• They were discriminating against immigrants
• They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

What phrase is used to describe America?

• blended
• melting pot
• adventurous
• lucky

Give examples of immigrant "push" factors.

• Promise of a better life

• War or religious persecution

• Religious Freedom

• Better opportunities

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel Island

Immigration pull factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place

• reasons people leave their homelands

• reasons people begin working

• reasons people stop working