Deck 3: The People: Settlement and Immigration

Question 1

"Multiculturalism" implies...

A) A melting pot
B) A core culture
C) A culture for Native Americans
D) Cultural pluralism
E) No priority for any cultural group

Answer 1

E

Question 2

What state was founded as a haven for Catholics?

A) Virginia
B) Pennsylvania
C) Massachusetts
D) New York
E) Maryland

Answer 2

E
Explanation: Catholics were persecuted in England. Lord Baltimore established Maryland for them in the 1630s.

Question 3

Which religious group did William Penn belong to?

A) Puritans
B) Quakers
C) Catholics
D) Jews
E) Baptists

Answer 3

B
Explanation: English tolerance of the Quakers took the form of allowing them to emigrate.

Question 4

Which factor most motivated people to settle in the US between 1820 and 1920?

A) Search for gold
B) Land availability
C) Employment prospects
D) Religious persecution at home
E) The US climate

Question 5

Who led the campaign which resulted in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

A) The US Senate
B) The president
C) Labor organizations
D) Religious organizations
E) The railroad builders

Question 6

The Naturalization Act of 1790 only allowed which category to become American citizens?

A) British immigrants
B) Protestants
C) Immigrants from Canada
D) Whites
E) Christians

Question 7

During which period did the US introduce a series of racist immigration laws?

A) 1790s
B) 1900-14
C) 2010s
D) never
E) 1920s

Question 8

What was the total number of immigrants between 1961 and 2018?

A) 44.5 million
B) 39 million
C) 45 million
D) 48 million
E) 54 million

Question 9

What percentage of the immigrants were North American or European by 2018?

A) 28 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 7 percent
D) 13 percent
E) 50 percent

Question 10

The Patriot Act of 2002 authorized which of the following practices to be used to regulate entry to the USA?

A) Biometric identity checks
B) Calling in immigrants for questioning
C) Intensified surveillance of foreign-born persons
D) Deportation of terrorist suspects
E) Green Card lottery

Question 11

Who was brought to the United States under the Bracero Program?

A) refugees and asylum seekers
B) slaves from Africa
C) orphans from Syria
D) persecuted Jews from Europe
E) Mexican farm laborers

Question 12

An immigrant differs from a founder…

A) Because he has a right to enter the US
B) Because he has no automatic right of entry
C) Because the founder arrived before any immigrants
D) Because the founder has a green card
E) Because the founder has purchased land

Question 13

Explain why the encounters between Native Americans and the Europeans were so disastrous.

Question 14

Critically discuss the evolution of American immigration law and the social forces that produced it, using the text and the extended caption to Plate 3.3.

Question 15

Summarize the findings relating to resident nonimmigrants in the Population Estimates produced in May 2021 by the Department of Homeland Security at: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/population-estimates

Question 16

How do current immigration statistics relating to the countries of origin of immigrants differ from the situation at the beginning of the twentieth century?