Immigration Check-in Quiz

Which of the following groups WOULD NOT be considered "Old Immigrants"?

• German Immigrants

• British Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

• Polish Immigrants

Which of the following groups WOULD NOT be considered "New Immigrants"?

• Polish Immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

• Jewish Immigrants

Which of the following IS FALSE?

• Chinese Immigrants were brought on contracts to construct the transcontinental railroad.

• Chinese Immigrants were often discriminated against severely.

• Chinese Immigrants were barred (not allowed) from immigrating to the US after 1900.

• Chinese Immigrants were often forced to work for very little in pay and in terrible conditions.

TRUE OR FALSE: The Irish Immigrants, although they began to immigrate to the US much earlier than most groups - Irish Immigrants were treated most like other "New Immigrant" groups.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Old Immigrants faced some resistance due to their harsh accents that were largely unfamiliar to current White Americans.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Old Immigrants like Irish Immigrants were treated very unfavorably due to their poor traits such as drinking a lot and being severely mental unstable.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In the twenty years that the Chinese Exclusion Act was in effect it limited but did not completely prohibit the legal immigration and path to citizenship for Chinese Immigrants.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Chinese Americans were often discriminated against due to a racist belief that they were "under cutting" or lowering the working wage due to their assumed DESIRE or WANT to work for very little money and very little wages.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When we are discussing the time period of 1880-1920 it is important to remember that people immigrating to the US from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Ireland, and Italy are not considered White, despite their pale complexion.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which group in racist cartoons was often compared to racist depictions of black people, especially Black men?

• Irish Immigrants

• Polish Immigrants

• Italian Immigrants

• Phillipino Immigrants