Deck 4: The Golden Door

Question 1

The total number of immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 2000 was ? approximately:

A) 15 million.
B) 25 million.
C) 66 million.
D) 200 million.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Once established in the United States the German immigrants:

A) abandoned their homeland culture.
B) abandoned their German language.
C) retained their German language.
D) retained their German currency.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

By the first part of the 20th century ________ Irish women came to the United States with the ? Irish men.

A) fewer
B) about the same
C) twice as many
D) slightly more

Answer 3

D

Question 4

All of the following were provided as main factors for the mass migration to the United States, except:

A) changes in agriculture.
B) warfare in the homeland.
C) population size.
D) industrial production.

Question 5

The most important recruiting tool for German immigrants was:

A) personal letters.
B) periodicals.
C) guidebooks.
D) pamphlets.

Question 6

In 1875 the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that only the ________ ________ was empowered by the ? Constitution to regulate immigration.

A) state legislatures
B) county governments
C) European countries
D) U.S. Congress

Question 7

The first great immigration stream occurred:

A) 1820-1889.
B) 1890-1924.
C) 1924-1967.
D) 1968-2000.

Question 8

The "Golden Door" is sometimes called the "Isle of Tears" for this place:

A) Castle Garden.
B) Boston Harbor.
C) Ellis Island.
D) Cherry point.

Question 9

Many Americans viewed the Irish as being:

A) apelike.
B) wise.
C) hard working.
D) trustworthy.

Question 10

The common push factor shared by Germans and Irish who immigrated to the United States ? was:

A) political warfare.
B) crop failures.
C) warfare in neighboring countries.
D) opulence in the homeland.

Question 11

Which vegetable crop failure contributed significantly to the Irish immigrant patterns to the ? United States?

A) corn
B) barley
C) potato
D) rutabaga

Question 12

The disruption that came from the Civil War:

A) completely halted immigration.
B) slowed but didn't stop immigration.
C) led to the Immigration Filtering Act of 1861.
D) was controlled by Southern Military forces.

Question 13

By the 1890s,the leading regions of immigrants coming to the United States were:

A) Southern and Eastern Europe.
B) Northern and Western Europe.
C) Latin American.
D) Asian.

Question 14

The largest numbers of immigrants that came in the first immigration stream came about:

A) 1820.
B) 1850.
C) 1870.
D) 1880.

Question 15

Many of the "Forty-eighters" were:

A) pleased with the state of things in the United States.
B) disappointed in the absence of a democratic utopia in the United States.
C) pleased with the German crop successes.
D) militant about new German immigrants.

Question 16

The most popular landing site for European immigrants was in:

A) New York.
B) Boston.
C) Savannah.
D) Charleston.

Question 17

All of the following were reported as being common to the second great immigrant stream,? except:

A) Lithuanians.
B) Bulgarians.
C) Mexicans.
D) Serbs.

Question 18

The decade with the highest number of immigrants to the United States was:

A) 1820-30.
B) 1850-60.
C) 1950-60.
D) 1990-2000.

Question 19

Which church substituted English for German as the language for worship?

A) Anglican
B) Methodist
C) Baptist
D) Lutheran

Question 20

Many of the "Forty-eighters" supported:

A) abolition of slavery.
B) immigration tariffs.
C) revolution in Prussia.
D) overthrow of local political structures.

Question 21

The National-Origins Principle has been:

A) perpetuated in immigration practice to this day.
B) modified slightly into the INNA of 1962.
C) eliminated by later legislation.
D) groundbreaking in the 1990s.

Question 22

Ellis Island had about 16 million immigrants successfully enter through its gates.

Question 23

Irish men emigrated more than Irish women.

Question 24

Germans form mutual aid societies to help new immigrants coming to the United States.

Question 25

All of the following explain the Italian immigrants of the second stream immigrants,except:

A) peasants
B) literate
C) vast numbers (3 million)
D) economically dislocated

Question 26

Another word for "birds of passage" Italians is:

A) sojourners.
B) day-laborers.
C) permanent non-residents.
D) crooks.

Question 27

The Irish threatened the natives in America with their Roman Catholicism and activity in ? politics.

Question 28

The Jewish reform movement included all of the following except:

A) consumption of pork.
B) inter-faith marriage.
C) Sunday as Sabbath.
D) little use of Hebrew in worship.

Question 29

In spite of the rise of Italians,Austrians,and Russians,Germans continued to be the number ? one source for United States immigrants.

Question 30

Many natives in the United States came to see the second great stream of immigrants as being:

A) artificial.
B) genuine.
C) overzealous.
D) under-zealous.

Question 31

Russian Jews resembled Italians on this one factor.

A) their worship
B) their little previous experience in urban living
C) their origins from large cities
D) their experience in the banking industry

Question 32

Many native Americans saw Italian immigrants in the second stream as being:

A) dilettantes.
B) lazy Catholics.
C) anti-American.
D) criminals.

Question 33

The newer Germans got along perfectly well with the established native Germans in the ? United States.

Question 34

During the decade of the 1820s,America was a very popular destination for emigrants.

Question 35

Italian men often worked ________ jobs.

A) skilled blue-collar
B) professional
C) pick-and-shovel
D) medical

Question 36

Most second stream immigrants were poverty stricken.

Question 37

Most Irish women were laborers on canals or roads.

Question 38

In the 1840s a virulent form of potato rot struck the Irish potato farmers.

Question 39

The U.S.Jewish culture became dominated by ________ Jews.

A) Italian
B) Russian
C) British
D) German

Question 40

Why didn't the second stream immigrant move beyond the frontier?

A) The jobs there were only for existing natives.
B) Indian hostility
C) Civil War
D) It was officially closed.

Question 41

The Irish were called the "Chinese of Europe."

Question 42

The German Jews gave no support to the Russian Jews because they felt they were superior to ? the Russians.

Question 43

Most refugees who came to the United States came in the first great immigration stream.

Question 44

What did the Germans do or fail to do that led the natives to see them as being collectively ? threatening to themselves and their country?

Question 45

In 1924 the United States began using immigration quotas with the national-origins principle.

Question 46

Describe the adjustments made by the various groups of Jews that immigrated to the United ? States and how these adjustments were similar or different from those made by other groups ? that immigrated in large numbers.

Question 47

Briefly describe the history and influence of the National-Origins Principle,how it came to rise ? and later fall.What replaced it and why is it better or worse?

Question 48

What motivated the Irish,Germans,Eastern and Southern Europeans,and Jews to migrate to ? the United States (push factors)? What were their perceived pull factors and how did they find ? out about them?

Question 49

Since 1968 the U.S.immigration policy has been considered more humane.

Question 50

What socio-economic circumstances did the Irish,Germans,and many others leave and what ? did they find here in the United States after they migrated?

Question 51

The earliest Jews to arrive in the United States were called the Sephardim.

Question 52

The human suffering experienced by the people who came in the second great immigration ? stream is incalculable.

Question 53

In 1912,Massachusetts Italians were highly over-represented in prisons.

Question 54

By 1900,the Italian men were 30 times more likely to work in the garment industry than were ? White men.

Question 55

List ten differences in third stream immigrants and either first or second stream immigrants.

Question 56

Which cultural,political,and historical factors predisposed the Italians to struggle to assimilate ? once in the United States?

Question 57

Many Italian women who did work went into the "needle trades."

Question 58

The immigrants of the third stream have become much more diverse in their places of ? destination within the United States.

Question 59

Recent immigration patterns have reversed the "browning of America" trend some have ? observed.

Question 60

Using a few of the groups from each immigration stream,give examples of exploitation of ? newcomers by natives.Who did the exploiting and did nationality make any difference?
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Question 61

For each of the groups discussed in the three immigration streams list one or two descriptive ? words that typifies native perceptions.Also list how accurate each description really was ? based on the information in the text.

Question 62

How is current immigration policy more humane toward non-European immigrants?