What is the Quota System?

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

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Banning Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years

Letting Chinese in America with open arms

The Europeans taking over China

Which factor contributed to the shifting of population from rural to urban areas from 1870-1900?

Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and laborers to cities

Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act

Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland

Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the counttryside

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds

They settled in warmer climates

They settled where immigrant officials sent them

What did Nativists believe?

Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)

Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?

It made their adjustment to their new life easier

It was illegal to live anywhere else

They didn't want to be in the US

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice

Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US

Difficult to study for the citizenship test

Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?

US passed a law limiting immigration

People didn't want to come to the US anymore

Countries wouldn't allow citizens to leave for the US

Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...

The government didn't want them to bring sickness into the US

The government was discriminating against immigrants

The government had prejudice and did it just to be mean

They were looking for the leader of the ¨Super Cult¨

Why did they ask immigrants difficult questions at Angel Island?

To make sure they already had family in the US

To find the whereabouts of a spy called the giant spaghetti monster

To make sure they wouldn't harm the US

To be exclusive and only let the best in

This prevented Japanese people from leaving Japan to come to the US

Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

How were the "new" immigrants who came to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s different from the "old" immigrants who came previously?

Most of the new immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe.

The new immigrants were more widely accepted into American culture.

The new immigrants mainly settled in the southern states and became farmers.

Most of the new immigrants came for a short time to earn money.

I am the motto of the United States that is found on the back of all U.S. coins. What am I?

¨United we stand, divided we fall¨

Immigration/Nativism

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

Washington, D.C.

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Baltimore

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

Washington, D.C.

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Baltimore

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

Mixing Bowl

Angel Food Cake

Fish Tank

Melting Pot

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?

Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad

Work in New York factories

Contributions to the steel industry

Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What processing station did Immigrants go through on the WEST coast?

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Devil Island

Alcatraz

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.

Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.

Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

Melting Pot

Birds of Passage

Nativism

All of the above

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