Immigration Chapter 15

What phrase is used to describe America?

• Blended

• adventurous

• melting pot

• lucky

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island

• Alcatraz

• Rhode Island

• Angel Island

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

• Rhode Island

• Manhattan

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

Why did "Americans" discriminate against the Chinese?

• They owned all the businesses in California

• They had a lot of money when they came to the USA.

• They opened up too many restaurants in San Francisco

• They held onto their language and culture and they would take American jobs.

This group of immigrants faced discrimination due to stereotypes such as "drunkards", "loud", "lazy.

• Germans

• Italians

• Irish

• Chinese

Why were so few Chinese allowed to come to the United States?

• Voyage too far and expensive

• Very few tried to come

• There were no jobs available

• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

The poorly built, overcrowded apartment building with very little natural light often occupied by immigrants were called:

• skyscrapers

• tenements

• settlement houses

• benevolent societies

What can you conclude from the fact that many immigrants traveled to America in steerage?

• Most of them did not have much money.

• They were unaccustomed to first class.

• Most of them were frightened by the open sea.

• They wanted to avoid motion sickness.

To what does the term mass transit refer?

• a problem of traffic in big cities in the late 1800's.

• migration of middle class families form the suburbs into big cities

• The problem of traffic in big cities in the late 1800's.

• a system of public transportation created to move a large number of passengers.

Employers often welcomed immigrant workers because the workers

• had more skills than native born Americans

• created better products than native born Americans

• were willing to work for lower pay than native born Americans

• had basic health insurance from immigrant labor unions.