Immigration Test Review

A nativist was someone who

• was pro-slavery

• was against immigration

• needed workers for their factories

• learned a new language

In the 19th and 20th centuries, many nativist groups complained that

• too many immigrants settled in rural areas

• leaders of business were not protected

• too many immigrants were coming into the country and taking jobs away from Americans

• government jobs only wanted to hire immigrants

Many immigrants who arrived to the United States during the late 1800s

• found the streets paved with real gold.

• helped with the crops on farms

• became business owners.

• moved to cities to find work in factories.

Two different places immigrants were processed when they arrived were

• Ellis Island and a tenement building

• Angel Island and Ellis Island

• Angel Island and San Francisco

• Valley Stream and the Green Acres Mall

Many immigrants left their countries because of 'push factors' like

• famine, drought, poverty, and war

• educational opportunities and jobs

• great school and religious persecution

• poverty and amazing jobs

Many Irish left Ireland because of

• political problems

• civil war

• the potato famine

• they wanted to bring their business to the U.S.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• was not upheld by nativists in Congress

• wanted more Chinese immigrants to come to America

• helped to create opportunities for Asian immigrants

• stopped Chinese immigration for a decade

Which is NOT a reason people left their countries to come to America?

• religious persecution

• famine and drought

• poverty

• great schools in their home country

The voyage by boat across the Atlantic was considered

• clean and safe for immigrants

• dangerous and unhealthy for immigrants

• a beautiful way to get to America

• sanitary and clean

Tenement buildings were

• clean, cheap, and safe places to live

• built to house the wealthy people in NYC

• shut down by the city because of the filth

• places where poor immigrant families lived in the city