Modern American History FINAL

Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act as a result of:

• Fear that the Chinese were taking too many American jobs

• Fear that the Chinese were a threat to national security.

• Fear of overpopulation

• All answers are correct.

The main Chinese immigration center located in San Francisco Bay, California:

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Immigration Station

• Immigration Processing Center

 When immigrants initially arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, they were required to go through which of the following?

• Passport Checkpoints

• Health Examinations

• Interrogations (formal questioning)

• None are correct.

TRUE or FALSE: The Geary Act was the first law in the United States to ban immigration by race or nationality.

• True

• False

DEFINITION: The process of adjusting to another ones’ culture - including their ideas, values, and traditions.

• Dawes Act

• Refugee

• Culture Shock

• Assimilation

DEFINITION: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

• Naturalized Citizen

• Refugee

• Immigrant

• Assimilation

DEFINITION: This reinforced and extended the Chinese Exclusion Act’s ban on Chinese immigration for an additional ten years. It also required Chinese residents in the U.S. to carry special documentation—certificates of residence—from the IRS.

• Geary Act

• Contract Labor Agreements

• Chinese Exclusion

• Sharecropping

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds

• Divided the tribal lands into individual sections as a way to encourage assimilation and farming

• Changed the name "slavery" to "sharecropping."

• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

In what U.S. state did the Battle of Little Bighorn take place?

• New Mexico

• Texas

• Montana

• Arizona

What was the primary cause of the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• The Indians refused to give up the land, so the U.S. decided to force the Indian tribes out of the Black Hills.

• Fighting over supplies and food

• Gold mining on the white hills

• A simple misunderstanding