Immigration and Urbanization Review

The political cartoon above most directly reflects which of the following choices?

• A. The Chinese immigrants were welcomed to America.

• B. All immigrants were barred from America.

• C. Chinese immigrants were excluded from entering the United States.

• D. Chinese and Irish immigrants were welcomed as railroad laborers.

The political cartoon best shows which of the following characteristics of America's relationship with the rest of the world in this time period?

• A. The targeting of specific ethnic groups for exclusion from America.

• B. The American Open-Door policy for immigrants.

• C. Americans practiced a policy of isolationism with the world.

• D. Americans welcomed all immigrants with an education.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, prejudice against "new" immigrants increased mainly because these immigrants

• 1. came from cultural backgrounds very different from that of the majority of 

  Americans

• 1. tried to replace American democracy with their own forms of government

• 1. formed their own labor unions in order to receive higher wages

• 1. had job skills superior to those of most American workers

The Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 forbidding Chinese immigration eventually led to...

• 1. The complete exclusion of all Chinese immigrants for a long period of time

• 1. The opportunity for Chinese men in America to send for supplies
     

• 1. An opportunity for Chinese immigrants to assimilate and ease racial tensions

• 1. Chinese migrating from California to other states

If Pauline Newman was escaping Lithuania because of religious persecution, that would be considered which of the following?

• A. Scarcity

• B. Pull factor

• C. Famine

• D. Push factor

Which of the following would be considered a push factor for immigrants coming to the United States at the turn of the 19th Century or today?

• 1. Leaving your homeland because of a war

• 1. Coming to the United States for a better job

• 1. Free public education in the United States

• 1. Better wages for your occupation

  
  

Which of the following best describes tenements in the late 1800's?

• 1. Crowded but clean

• 1. Small houses with open spaces

• 1. Dirty, crowded and unhealthy

• 1. Skyscrapers with elevators heat and water

In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because

• 1. farmland had become very scarce

• 1. factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

• 1. there was much less discrimination in those cities

• 1. they came mainly from large cities in their home countries

  
  

War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......

• 1. Push Factors

• 1. Jump factors

• 1. Pull factors

• 1. Falling factors

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...

• 1. Falling factors

• 1. Pull factors

• 1. Jump factors

• 1. Push factors