Immigration in the US

Why did "Americans" discriminate against the Chinese?

• There owned all the businesses in California

• They had a lot of money when they came to U.S.

• They opened too many restaurants

• They held onto their culture (language, food, clothing) & they thought they would take their jobs

What was the first Immigration Law in the United States?

• Italian Exclusion Act of 1882

• Irish Exclusion Act of 1882

• Japanese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?

• Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad

• Work in New York factories

• Contributions to the steel industry

• Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

• They settled in warmer climates

• They settled near water

• They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds

• They settled where immigrant officials sent them

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

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

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.

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 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

What did Nativists believe?

• Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

• White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

• Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.

• All of the above.