Extra Immigration Questions

Which is not a reason that immigrants came to America?

• Better Opportunities

• Escape War

• Escape from the American Dream

• Escape Religious Persecution

Immigrants came to the United States to ___________.

• have freedom of religion

• find jobs

• have a better life

• all of the above

Which of the following were push factors?

• Poverty/famine

• War

• freedom

• jobs

Positive conditions in another country that attract immigrants to go there are....

• Pull factors

• Attractive attributes

• Push factors

• Exciting opportunities

What is NOT an example of a pull factor?

• Freedom

• escaping violence

• job opportunities

• reuniting with family

Limiting immigration in the past in the United States has been accomplished by....

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• offering job opportunities

• Quotas

• offering freedom and safety

What is the Quota System?

• A system created to limit the number of immigrants who could be in America

• The method immigrants used to get jobs

• Used at Ellis Island to process immigrants

• Created to help poor people in NYC get help

Nativists believed ..

• Immigrants threatened the American way of life and some were believed to be criminals.

• White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

• Immigrants stole jobs from Americans

• All of the above.

People who leave their home country to live in a new country

• Immigrants

• naturalizations

• nationists

Claudia lives in Germany, but an usual tornado has just devastated the land and destroyed her home. This is an example of a _______

• Push factor

• Pull factor