Unit 2 Section 2 Study Guide

What "scientific" theory was used to try and limit immigration to the United States because it could ruin the the nordic American race?

• Eugenics
• Racism

• Ethnocentrism

• White Supremacy

Medical assistance, hot lunches, English classes, and recreation programs were all provided by _____________________ to help immigrants.

• Settlement Houses
• Federal Government

• City Government

• Local Charities

What legislation created the quotas for immigrants from different/various parts of the world?

• Johnson-Reed Act
• Immigration Act of 1965

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Quota Act

What was a primary reason for the Great Migration?

• Seeking religious freedom

• Escaping natural disasters

• Seeking better economic opportunities

• Avoiding military conscription

While welcomed as laborers in the North in the 1920s, a lot of citizens of northern neighborhoods did not want ____________________ living in the same neighborhood as them.

• African Americans
• Irish Immigrants

• Mexican Immigrants

• Women

Congressman arguing against the immigration quotas being passed argued that immigrants/descendants of immigrants were some of the largest ______________________

• contributors to society

• Detriments to society

• Donators to charity

• Breakers of the law

Two percent of what census year was to be used to figure out what the immigration quotas were going to be with the legislation in 1924?

• 1890
• 1910

• 1920

• 1900

What was a common reason 'Undesirable new immigrants' were labeled as such in the United States?

• Cultural and religious differences

• Native English speakers

• High education level

• Economic prosperity