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WorksheetsImmigration
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
a)
Did NOT want religious freedom
b)
Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
c)
Wanted LESS diversity
d)
Wanted to live more simply
2.
How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?
a)
Main station for European immigrants
b)
Main station for Chinese immigrants
c)
Located on the EAST coast
d)
People were only there a few hours
3.
Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?
a)
It was illegal to live anywhere else
b)
They didn't want to be in the US
c)
It made their adjustment to their new life easier
d)
No other housing was avaliable
4.
What challenges did immigrants face in the US?
a)
They caught diseases
b)
Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
c)
Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
d)
Difficult to study for the citizenship test
5.
How did prejudice create problems for some immigrants?
a)
Major companies wanted to hire them
b)
People laughed at their accents
c)
Were not allowed jobs because of their race/ethnicity
d)
Immigrant children were not allowed to attend school
6.
Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?
a)
US passed a law limiting immigration
b)
People didn't want to come to the US anymore
c)
There was a war in the US
d)
Countries wouldn't allow citizens to leave for the US
7.
Where were most immigrants from?
a)
Italy
b)
Slavic Countries
c)
Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico
d)
Europe
8.
This person challenged the Jim Crow Laws.
a)
Homer Plessy
b)
Jim Crow
c)
Ferguson
d)
Ms. Greene
9.
The first stop for immigrants from China.
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
10.
Immigrants from Europe came here first. They were taken by ferry boat here.
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
11.
Immigrants faced this from native born Americans. This means they were treated unfairly because of their race/ethnicity.
a)
diversity
b)
prejudice
12.
This means variety.
a)
diversity
b)
prejudice
c)
Laws
13.
The Statue of Liberty represented all of these EXCEPT what to immigrants?
a)
Freedom
b)
Excitement for a new life
c)
Opportunity to be successful
d)
Fear for a worse life
14.
Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...
a)
They didn't want them to bring them into the US
b)
They were discriminating against immigrants
c)
They had prejudice and did it just to be mean
15.
Why did they ask immigrants difficult questions at Angel Island?
a)
To be exclusive and only let the best in
b)
To make sure they already had family in the US
c)
To make sure they wouldn't harm the US
16.
Why did the US decide to put a limit on immigration in 1924?
a)
The US was becoming hostile
b)
The US was discriminating
c)
The US had too many new citizens too quickly
17.
Immigrants felt they were entering a new world for all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
New freedom
b)
New diversity
c)
New opportunities
d)
New discrimination
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