EOC Review USHC.3.CX Spot Check

Match the term with the correct definition.

• Irish Potato Famine

• In the late 19th century, this political and social movement swept through the United States, its followers believing that all people who were not born in the U.S. and were of European heritage should be banned from the country.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• This term refers to an event in the mid-1800s. The poor of Ireland were dependent on one crop, and when that crop failed, about a million people died.

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• This theory states that when various ethnic croups come to the United States they lose their former identities and form a new, different, and "American" identity.

• Ellis Island

• This was an informal agreement between the United States and Japan: the U.S. would not restrict Japanese immigration, but Japan would not allow people to go to the U.S. It lasted from 1907 to 1924.

• Melting Pot Theory

• This 1882 law forbade any laborers from a specific East Asian country from entering the United States for 10 years.

This political cartoon summarizes proposed legislation to stop immigration into the United States through the use of

• income.

• military force.

• building a barrier wall.

• educational requirements.

Answer explanation

The correct choice is educational requirements as the political cartoon suggests using this method to stop immigration into the United States.

In the cartoon what is the significance of the family and the wall labeled "literacy test"?

• The literacy test is the wall. An insouramountable barrier to a family of immigrants.

• The wall, literacy test, and military were combined to keep immigrants from entering the United States.

• If immigrants could pass the literacy test, they still had to find a way to overcome the wall blocking their freedom.

• The wall represents a literal wall that was built around the eastern coast of the United States in an effort to keep immigrants out.

Answer explanation

The literacy test is the wall. An insouramountable barrier to a family of immigrants.

Based on this map, which of these statements is MOST accurate?

• African Americans did not move to cities in the South.

• Urban areas in the Midwest saw a boom in African American population.

• States on the West Coast mostly saw a decline in African American population.

• Cities in the Northeast were largely unaffected by the Great Migration in this time period.

Answer explanation

The correct choice is that urban areas in the Midwest saw a boom in African American population, as indicated by the map.

Which of these played the biggest role in this population shift at the beginning of the time period shown here?

• World War I

• World War II

• Jim Crow laws

• the Reconstruction Era

Answer explanation

Jim Crow laws played the biggest role in this population shift at the beginning of the time period shown here.

The Great Seal of the United States contains the phrase E Pluribus Unum. Which of these might best support the use of this motto?

• the United States is made up of people from every continent

• one of the principles of the Constitution is a separation of powers

• the structure of the U.S. government is based on European institutions

• the Amendments to the Constitution guarantees basic rights to all people

Answer explanation

the United States is made up of people from every continent

Chinese Exclusion Act; May 6, 1882
An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to Chinese
Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days, to remain within the United States.
This law states that the "Chinese laborers to this country endanger the good order of certain localities" in the United States. Which occupation would the word "laborers" MOST LIKELY be referring to?

• farmer

• fisherman

• lumberjack

• miner

Answer explanation

The word 'laborers' in the law most likely refers to miners.

Using the information on this chart, one could deduce that immigration in the United States

• was more of a factor in the era before the Civil War.

• resulted in increased settlement in farming communities.

• led to an increase in the population of American cities.

• caused an increase in the popularity of the Democratic party.

Answer explanation

Using the information on this chart, one could deduce that immigration in the United States led to an increase in the population of American cities.

''As the unpleasant truth has come upon us that assimilation in this country was proceeding on lines very different from those we had marked out for it, we found ourselves inclined to blame those who were thwarting our prophecies.... We blamed the war, we blamed the Germans. And then we discovered with a moral shock that these movements had been making great headway before the war even began. We found that... they became more and more firmly established and more and more prosperous, to cultivate more and more assiduously the literatures and cultural traditions of their homelands. Assimilation, in other words, instead of washing out the memories of Europe, made them more and more intensely real."
Randolph S. Bourne, July 1916
The author of this passage believes that

• Congress should ban immigration from Germany.

• Americans and Europeans are still closely linked.

• Americans do not identify with the European world.

• Europeans should not be allowed into the United States.

Answer explanation

The author believes that Americans and Europeans are still closely linked, as assimilation did not erase European memories but intensified them.

The cartoon titled The Chinese Question
"Hands off, Gentlemen! America means Fair Play for All Men"

would have been MOST likely to have been published in

• the late 1700s.

• the late 1800s.

• the early 1800s.

• the early 1900s.

Answer explanation

The cartoon 'The Chinese Question' with the message 'America means Fair Play for All Men' would have been MOST likely published in the early 1900s, reflecting the sentiments of that time period.