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Immigration Test

1. What population changes occurred in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th Century?

2. Continued and rapid growth of cities

3. Why did immigrants settle in urban areas?

4. Rapid industrialization created many job opportunities

5. Use of children in workforce in early 1900’s?

6. Paid 2$ a week

7. Urbanization

8. Movement of people to the cities for factory jobs

9. Who wrote How the other Half Lives , and what was it about?

10. Jacob Riis wrote book focused on the living conditions of residents of urban slums

11. Europeans who came to U.S. between 1889-1920 have been described as new immigrants because

12. Came generally from different countries than most earlier immigrants

13. Chinese Exclusion Act

14. Wanted to prevent a policy of unlimited immigration from occurring in the U.S.

15. Why did early 1900 Immigrants to the U.S. have an advantage over immigrants of today?

16. They found that unskilled jobs were more available

17. Why do people immigrate to the U.S.?

18. Is a result of circumstances abroad as well as in the U.S. Push and Pull factors

19. Melting Pot Theory

20. A new and different society would emerge from the blending of cultures.

21. Why were few restrictions placed on immigrants early on?

22. A steady demand for cheap labor existed

23. What problems did immigrants face?

24. Frequently discriminated against

25. Why such an anti-immigration movement in U.S.?

26. 1. Immigrants competed with native born Americans for jobs 2. many refused to assimilate into American Culture 3. Spoke different languages and had different customs

27. Nativism

28. Discrimination against immigrants by Americans who can trace their ancestry back for generations

29. Why were Labor Unions created?

30. Protect the American worker from the flood of low, unskilled, ignorant, foreign workers who are pouring into the country

31. Quote on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free….What would this person be in favor of?

32. Unrestricted Immigration