Question Bank for Grade 8 Social Studies

What is the main mode of transportation immigrants took to America during this period of time(1870s-1920's)?

• Lawnmower

• Spaceship

• Sailboat

• Steamship

What was the cheapest ticket a person could buy on a ship coming to America?

• Business class

• Coach Class

• Steerage Class

• Low Class

What made steerage class so terrible?(Click all that apply)

• No seat belts

• Crowded

• No windows

• Shared toilets

• Too clean

True or False: No one ever became sick and died on the way to America...

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Some people did die on the trip to America!

What was a large reason that people moved to America during this period?

• Religious Persecution

• Not fun in Europe

• Inflation

• Too much fun in the old country

Why did agricultural workers leave home to come to America?

• Crops were too successful, needed to make less money, laziness

• Crop failures, low profits, needed to find work

• Didn't like how Europe smelled, Needed new hats and shoes

• America seemed cooler than Europe and Asia, better food

What was another reason many Europeans left for America in the later part of the 1800s?

• Outbreaks of stinky foot disease

• Deflation

• Reflation

• Revolutions and Political unrest

Pre-1880 most immigrants from what area of Europe?

• Eastern and Southern Europe

• Western and Northern Europe

• Southeastern Asia

• Africa

After 1880 where did most European immigrants come from?

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Northern and Western Europe

• Southern Asia

• Western Africa

What law greatly decreased the number of immigrants entering the US?

• Immigration Act of 1973

• Anti-immigration policy of 1885

• Immigration Act of 1882