US Immigration Part 1

These characteristics of Immigration best represent which period of U.S. Immigration: Majority of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe to industrial cities in need of cheap, unskilled labor. Lived and worked in ethnic enclaves. Passing of Chinese Exclusion Act as well as rise in Anti-German propaganda

• Colonial Era

• First Great Wav (1840s-1870s)

• Second Great Wave (1880s-1920s)

These characteristics of Immigration best represent which period of U.S. Immigration: Mostly English, pushed natives from their land, solved labor shortage with indentured servitude and enslavement

• Colonial Era

• First Great Wave (1880-1920)

• Second Great Wave (1880-1920)

These characteristics of Immigration best represent which period of U.S. Immigration: Immigrants mostly from Europe and majority from Ireland. Brought on by booming factories and abundant farmland. East Asian Immigration rose and opposition to it surged. Rise of the Know-Nothing Party.

• Colonial Era

• First Great Wave (1840s-1870s)

• Second Great Wave (1880s-1920s)

Immigrant groups have organized themselves politically and socially in the United States in immigrant "spaces". Which of the choices below is NOT considered a immigrant "space"

• Religious Institutions

• Geographical Spaces (enclaves)

• Political Groups

• Rural Communities

True or False: Race has largely determined the experience of immigrants in the United States?

• True

• False

True or False: Disagreements over immigration is a relatively recent development of US policy making.

• True

• False

Which political party that emerged in the 1840s and was less influential by the Civil War would support this political cartoon?

• Chinse Exclusions Party

• Know-Nothing (American) Party

• Ku Klux Klan

• Immigration Protective League

The process of a foreign-born person becoming a citizen of another country.

• Xenophobia

• Assimilation

• Ethnic Enclave

• Natualization

A fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers

• Xenophobia

• Ethnic Enclave

• Assimilation

• Naturalization

close-knit communities within major cities of people from the same ethnic background seeking economic opportunities

• Xenophobia

• Assimilation

• Ethnic Enclave

• Naturalization