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

The first great immigration stream occurred:

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

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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 7

The most popular landing site for European immigrants was in:

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

Question 8

Many of the "Forty-eighters" supported:

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

Question 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

The most important recruiting tool for German immigrants was:

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

Question 13

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 14

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 15

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 16

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 17

Italian men often worked ________ jobs.

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

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

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 20

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 21

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

Question 22

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 23

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

Question 24

Most second stream immigrants were poverty stricken.

Question 25

Most Irish women were laborers on canals or roads.

Question 26

Irish men emigrated more than Irish women.

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

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

Question 31

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 32

Another word for "birds of passage" Italians is:

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

Question 33

The Irish were called the "Chinese of Europe."

Question 34

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

Question 35

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 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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