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The Making of America: Immigration Ch 1-5

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which country did not contribute many early settlers, or immigrants, to America?

a)

Poland

b)

Holland

c)

England

d)

Germany

2.

The potato blight struck which country?

a)

England

b)

Russia

c)

Ireland

d)

United States

3.

Which city was a port fo entry to the United States for many Asian immigrants?

a)

Boston

b)

New York

c)

New Orleans

d)

San Francisco

4.

What is a tenement?

a)

a kind of food from Germany

b)

a boat that carried immigrants

c)

a crowded apartment building

d)

a tool for building canals

5.

Why did immigration to the United States slow down during the mid-1860s?

a)

improvements in European economy

b)

the French Revolution

c)

the expense of the voyage

d)

the Civil War

6.

What is the name for the wave of immigration to the United States after the Civil War?

a)

westward movement

b)

manifest destiny

c)

Old Immigration

d)

New Immigration

7.

Immigrants from China and Japan tended to settle in which region of the United States?

a)

East

b)

South

c)

West

d)

Midwest

8.

Where does the Statue of Liberty stand?

a)

New York Harbor

b)

Plymouth Rock

c)

Jamestown Harbor

d)

San Francisco Bay

9.

Which was the first stop in the United States for most European immigrants after 1892?

a)

Long Island

b)

Liberty Island

c)

Angel Island

d)

Ellis Island

10.

In 1882, all immigrants from which country were banned from entering the United States?

a)

Russia

b)

Germany

c)

China

d)

Italy

11.

Unfair treatment of a person or group because of beliefs about that group of people is called _____________.

a)

emigration

b)

naturalize

c)

discrimination

d)

persecuted

12.

___________ is a government in which citizens elect people to rule for them; a republic.

a)

Representative government

b)

Communist's government

c)

Monarchy

d)

Totalitarian regime

13.

The act of leaving one country to settle permanently in another.

a)

immigration

b)

emigration

c)

descendant

d)

colossus

14.

A policy of giving preference to people who are from a specific country, or who already live in a country, rather than to immigrants.

a)

nativism

b)

tenement

c)

naturalize

d)

discrimination

15.

The act of coming to live permanently in a new country is called _____________.

a)

naturalize

b)

immigration

c)

nativism

d)

emigration