IMMIGRATION DISCRIMINATION

What is the unfair treatment of people based on their race or culture?

• Assimilation

• Ghetto

• Discrimination

• Specialization

Following the Civil War, which two immigrant groups faced discrimination during the period of industrialization?

• African and Chinese

• Irish and German

• Chinese and Irish

• Italian and Irish

   

TRUE or FALSE?

Americans were happy to see large numbers of new Irish immigrants because they were seen as hardworking, law abiding citizens.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What was a challenge immigrants faced as a result of urbanization?

• Shortage of food because of no farm workers

• Living in slums and tenements because of overcrowding

• Lack of transportation

This law would not allow a group of immigrants based on their race, limiting their ability to emigrate to America

• Stamp Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Anti-Irish Act

Chinese Exclusion Act:

• Allowed more immigrants from Asia

• Banned freedom of speech

• Restricted working conditions

• Prevented Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S.

__________ immigrants could not get government jobs and had to pay higher taxes.

• Chinese

• Irish

• Polish

• Jewish

Job posters and “Help Wanted” signs often included the words “No __________ Need Apply!”

• Chinese

• Irish

• Polish

• Jewish

What group of immigrants were refused service in restaurants and hotels?

• Chinese

• Irish

• Polish

• Jewish

TRUE or FALSE?

In the western US, many people born in America wanted Chinese immigrants to return to their own country.

• TRUE

• FALSE