Immigration Test Review

What is prejudice?

• a voting fee

• preconceived opinion of someone or a specific race that is not based on reason or actual experience

• a reading test given in order to vote

• a run down, crowded residence within a house or block of apartments

What are the Jim Crow Laws?

• a run down, crowded residence within a house or block of apartments

• state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation

Why did most of the immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century settle in the cities?

• City living was crowded but there were plenty of recreational activities.

• City living was spacious, clean, and far from overpopulated.

• Cities were the cheapest places to live and offered unskilled laborers steady jobs.

• People had a hard time finding work so they settled into the cities since they could not afford to move.

Which group of immigrants poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920?

• Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

• Irish, Spanish, and Italian

Who would have been MOST LIKELY to support and help poor women in major urban areas?

• Jane Addams

• Helen Hunt Jackson

What was one of the reasons businesses hired many immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century?

• Immigrants sold their labor for cheap

• Immigrants were healthier

• Immigrants worked harder.

Native- born workers feared that “new immigrants” would…

• cause a shortage on food

• take their jobs and drive down wages

• cause too much sickness

 Which of the following BEST explains why most immigrants came to the United States between 1865 and 1920?

• Most immigrants were wealthy Europeans who brought successful businesses to the United States.

• Most immigrants faced problems at home. They believed that there was much more opportunity for them in the United States than at home.

Which of these BEST describes the immediate effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

• Southern blacks became fearful and moved to cities in the north.

• States tried to keep segregation and Jim Crow from becoming the law.

• States passed segregationist legislation and expanded Jim Crow.

What is meant by the term "separate but equal"?

• "new"

• "segregation"

• "united"