WorksheetsThe Making of America: Immigration Ch 1-5
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which country did not contribute many early settlers, or immigrants, to America?
Poland
Holland
England
Germany
The potato blight struck which country?
England
Russia
Ireland
United States
Which city was a port fo entry to the United States for many Asian immigrants?
Boston
New York
New Orleans
San Francisco
What is a tenement?
a kind of food from Germany
a boat that carried immigrants
a crowded apartment building
a tool for building canals
Why did immigration to the United States slow down during the mid-1860s?
improvements in European economy
the French Revolution
the expense of the voyage
the Civil War
What is the name for the wave of immigration to the United States after the Civil War?
westward movement
manifest destiny
Old Immigration
New Immigration
Immigrants from China and Japan tended to settle in which region of the United States?
East
South
West
Midwest
Where does the Statue of Liberty stand?
New York Harbor
Plymouth Rock
Jamestown Harbor
San Francisco Bay
Which was the first stop in the United States for most European immigrants after 1892?
Long Island
Liberty Island
Angel Island
Ellis Island
In 1882, all immigrants from which country were banned from entering the United States?
Russia
Germany
China
Italy
Unfair treatment of a person or group because of beliefs about that group of people is called _____________.
emigration
naturalize
discrimination
persecuted
___________ is a government in which citizens elect people to rule for them; a republic.
Representative government
Communist's government
Monarchy
Totalitarian regime
The act of leaving one country to settle permanently in another.
immigration
emigration
descendant
colossus
A policy of giving preference to people who are from a specific country, or who already live in a country, rather than to immigrants.
nativism
tenement
naturalize
discrimination
The act of coming to live permanently in a new country is called _____________.
naturalize
immigration
nativism
emigration
