Immigration

Which group of immigrants came to the US due to a potato famine?

• Chinese

• Italian

• Irish

• Polish

New technologies forced people from ____________ areas to the cities in search of jobs.

• desert

• rural

• suburban

• metropolitan

Neighborhoods where immigrants tended to settle in urban areas were known as ______________________.

• tenements

• ghettos

• suburbia

• Immigrant towns

The ________________ who immigrated to the East Coast were instrumental in construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Chinese

• Italian

• Russian Jews

• Irish

The arrival point for immigrants landing on the East Coast of the US was __________________.

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Devils Island

• Emerald Isle

_______________________ immigrated to the United States due to massive famines and the Taiping Rebellion.

• Japanese

• Malaysians

• Chinese

• Italian

Discrimination against immigrants included...

• cultural differences

• religious differences

• language

• all of the above

Nationalistic rebellions in Central Europe led many ________________ to immigrate to the US.

• Italians

• Germans

• British

• Polish

The ______________________ led many Irish to immigrate to the United States in search of a better life.

• Wars of Succession

• Revolutions of 1849

• Irish Potato Famine

• Irish Wars of Rebellion

Italians, Irish and Polish immigrants were discriminated against for practicing...

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Islam

• Judaism