Immigration Test Review

Where did most immigrants settle who entered the United States between 1890 and the mid-1920's?

• They came from northern and western Europe.

• They received economic assistance from government welfare programs.

• They tended to settle in cities.

• They returned to their native countries.

The overcrowded and poorly built apartments immigrants lived in in the early 20th century were called

• Hoovervilles.

• tenements.

• studio apartments

• rent control.

In the late 1800's and early 1900's, most nativists feared continued immigration to the United States because they believed that immigrants would

• become the majority in colleges and universities

• donate money to charities

• obtain the best farmland

• work for cheaper wages

Most immigrants ended up living in _______________ areas because that is where the jobs were located.

• rural

• urban

• educated

• farming

The "melting pot" theory of immigration means

• only immigrants can come from Europe

• immigrants will never learn to speak English

• will blend their culture with the culture in America

• will only practice their own customs and culture

Most of the 'new immigrants' who arrived in the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s

• moved to the midwest and bought farms

• moved to urban areas and were unskilled workers

• found high-paying jobs which made them wealthy

• moved home due to poverty in the U.S.

The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1920 was created to

• help bring more immigrants to factories

• help farmers in the Midwest with more laborers

• greatly limit the number of immigrants coming from China

• limit immigration from all countries except China

In the 1800s, the U.S. did not restrict immigration to the U.S. because

• nativists were for immigration

• many people didn't want to immigrate to the U.S.

• most immigrants knew American culture

• factories and the growing economy needed cheap workers

In the 1840s, a potato famine forced many people to immigrate to the U.S. from

• Russia

• China

• Italy

• Ireland

Nativists believed

• immigration created a strong economy

• immigrants would steal jobs from American workers

• immigrants would assimilate

• immigrants would be prejudiced toward Americans