Immigration Quiz

Which statement is true?

• The first immigrants to the United States arrived via the Bering Land Bridge about 7000 years ago
• The first Europeans arrived in the present-day United States around 1750
• Scientists are currently reevaluating the Bering Land Bridge theory of how people first came to North America
• The first immigrants to the United States settled in the Great Lakes region

In what part of the country did German immigrants tend to settle during the mid-19th century?

• A. The Northeast
• B. The Southeast
• C. The Midwest
• D. California

What is the main reason that so many Irish immigrants arrived in the 1840s and 1850s?

• A. Steamship companies actively recruited Irish immigrants during this time period, promising them good factory jobs
• B. Conditions in Ireland were terrible, including a crop failure and famine
• C. The Irish could no longer stand British persecution
• D. Ireland was devastated by a drought during this period

What was one reason that Irish immigrants in particular faced prejudice and discrimination?

• A. They were Protestant
• B. They did not want to work
• C. They were radical anarchists
• D. They were Catholic.

Which of the following was not a major reason people moved from Scandinavia to the United States?

• A. They were attracted to factory jobs in the eastern cities
• B. The United States had abundant farmland
• C. It was hard to find new land to farm in Scandinavia
• D. They were recruited by American steamship and railroad companies

Where did most Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century go?

• A. The Northeast
• B. The Southeast
• C. The Midwest
• D. California

What was one result of the Foreign Miners’ Tax of 1850?

• A. Many non-immigrant miners left the mines to seek other work
• B. Many more mines became profitable
• C. Many more Chinese immigrants arrived to work in the mines
• D. Many Chinese were forced out of the mines to find other work

Which of the following did not precede the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• A. The economic decline following the Civil War
• B. The formation of the Workingman’s Party
• C. Chinese immigrants became ineligible for citizenship
• D. Many non-immigrants felt that the Chinese threatened their jobs

Which of the following statements is false?

• A. Immigrants could be deported back to their home countries for health reasons
• B. It was okay for immigrants to arrive completely penniless
• C. Most European immigrants in the late 19th century had to undergo medical and legal exams on Ellis Island
• D. Most immigrants in the late 19th century traveled in steerage class

Which of the following issues did the Tenement House Act address?

• A. The comfort and sanitation of tenement buildings
• B. Where new immigrants would be allowed to live
• C. How many new tenement buildings could be constructed in New York
• D. Whether tenements should be demolished