Immigration

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

• Washington, D.C.
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• Baltimore

What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

• Mixing Bowl
• Angel Food Cake
• Fish Tank
• Melting Pot

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.
• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.
• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

Which of the following caused the most prejudice against new immigrants in the United States during the late nineteenth century?

• Americans believed that immigrants were transient and would hurt the communities when they moved on again.
• The United States had tense relations with many of the nations from which the immigrants came.
• Heavy immigration caused overcrowding in rural areas and a rise in the price of cropland.
• Americans feared that immigrants would refuse to assimilate into American culture.

War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors
• Jump Factors
• Falling Factors

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Falling Factors
• Jump Factors

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above

What is the Quota System?

• A system created to limit the number of immigrants who could be in America
• The end of the Civil War
• The Basic rules of Immigration
• The first rule of immigration

What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• Letting Chinese in America with open arms
• Banning Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years
• The Europeans taking over China
• Italians Immigrating to China