Immigration Quiz

1. Political bosses were considered corrupt because even though they gave immigrants aid and jobs, they expected what from immigrants?

• a. repayment
• b. taxes
• c. votes
• d. longer hours than non-immigrants

2. Where did new immigrants at the turn of the century tend to settle?

• a. on the East Coast only
• b. in communities that shared their heritage
• c. in settlement houses
• d. in the downtown area of New York

3. What did nativists fear regarding immigrants?

• a. losing their jobs
• b. losing their lives
• c. that immigrants would do a better job than them in the factories
• d. that immigrants would support Native Americans

4. In the Gentlemen’s Agreement between the U.S. and Japan, the two countries agreed that?

• a. Japan would send more immigrants to the U.S. to do migrant work.
• b. The West Coast would stop segregating schools.
• c. Japan would restrict immigration of laborers to the United States.
• d. A & B only.
• e. B & C only.

5. The Immigration Acts of the late 1800s to early 1900s sought to stop or limit immigration from which of the following regions?

• e. B & C only.
• a. Western Europe
• b. Eastern Europe
• c. Asia
• d. All of the above.

6. Why did the KKK resurface in the early 1900s?

• a. They were responding to the end of Jim Crow laws.
• b. They wanted to stop the “dangerous” ideologies of immigrants from ruining America (in their opinion).
• c. They did not resurface because they had a large presence from the Civil War to early 1900s.
• d. The KKK only targeted African Americans and wanted to stop them from voting in the early 1900s.

7. The Palmer Raids revealed the widespread fear of

• a. communists & anarchists.
• b. the influence of the FBI.
• c. dictators.
• d. capitalism.

8. True or False: xenophobia began in the United States when immigration surged in the 1900s.

• a. True
• b. False

9. According to this poem, who does America welcome?

• e. All of the above.
• a. Poor immigrants
• b. People who underwent much hardship
• c. Large groups of overcrowded people
• d. People with no real home

10. Why is it significant that this poem is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?

• a. It sent a message to incoming immigrants that despite any hardship or rough background, they were welcomed and had ample opportunity in the United States.
• b. It sent the message that America sought to steal workers from other countries and use them to fuel the Industrial Revolution.
• c. It gives the explanation as to why France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in the first place.
• d. It sent the message that America was raising an army of those rejected by other countries to help take over those countries.