Immigration Notes Quiz 2023-2024

What is a nativist?

• A person who advocates for the rights of native plants and animals
• A person who believes in the superiority of their native country or culture and favors those born in that country

• A person who specializes in the study of native languages
• A person who believes that certain skills or abilities are 'native' or inborn

What two locations were immigrants processed when they came to America during the late 1800's?

• Ellis Island and Alcatraz Island
• Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island
• Ellis Island and Angel Island
• Golden Gate Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge

What is urbanization?

• rapid growth of cities

• quickly making an area more rural

• making an area more forested

• making an area more mountainous

What two factors contributed to urbanization?

• industrialization and nativism

• immigration and tenements

• immigration and industrialization

• industrialization and political machines

Due to overcrowded conditions in large cities many immigrants were forced to live where?

• tenements

• on the street

• rural areas

• ghettos

Why did nativist fear immigrants? Select all that apply.

• many were not Protestant Christians

• took jobs away from native born citizens

• had strange customs and traditions

• did not speak English

Who is the most famous political boss?

• George Washington

• William Tweed

• Alexis de Tocqueville

• Ulysses S. Grant

What is a political machine?

• A type of government
• A voting device
• A political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive rewards for their efforts
• A type of political party

Why did the U.S. created the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• to set an example to any other group that the U.S. can kick you out as easily as it will let you in

• nativist feared the Chinese were taking their jobs

• we preferred the labor of the Japanese

• we were finished with all of the labor they provided in building the Transcontinental Railroad so it was time to send them home

During this time, women .... (select all that apply)

• worked at jobs like telephone operators and secretaries

• attended college in larger numbers

• stayed at home and raised the family since they could only make half as much as a man doing the same job

• published articles exposing the corruption of the time period