Waves of Immigration Studies Weekly

What push factor caused many Germans to leave their homes?

• disease and starvation

• new opportunities at home

• jobs building railroads

• political unrest

What is a push factor for immigration?

• land availability for farming

• new factories being built

• job availability in another country

• crop failures in their home country

What is a pull factor for immigration?

• lack of food in their own country

• their government offering free land available for farming

• new factories being built in their city

• job availability in another country

Immigrants wanting to enter the US were asked questions to test their knowledge about America before being let in?

• True

• False

All immigrants who wanted to live in America were let in?

• True

• False

If problems could not be worked out, people were put back on the boat and sent back to their home country?

• True

• False

Congress officially organized a system of immigration laws starting in

• 1864

• 1903

• 1917

• 1942

The Immigration Act of 1903________________________________

• allowed all who want to live in America to come in

• stopped anarchists, those who rebel against authority through violence, from immigrating to America

• encouraged people from Asia to immigrate to America

• promised free land to everyone who immigrate to America that year

The Immigration Act of 1917 required immigrants to take what kind of test?

• Math

• Intelligence

• Literacy

• Geography

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 did what?

• Set limits on the number of people from a country would be allowed into America each year.

• Excluded any Asian-Pacific people from immigrating into America

• Excluded any German people from immigrating into America

• Ended all limits that were set earlier, to open the borders to all who wanted to enter into America