Immigration Check in Quiz

The movement of people or animals is

• migration.

• deprivation.

• emigration.

• in my station.

A person who moves from their home country to live permanently in a new country is know as a(n)

• interesting person.

• daredevil.

• immigrant.

• worker bee.

Some of the reasons people immigrated in the late 1800s were....

(pick 3)

• adventure.

• opportunity.

• to escape persecution.

• to escape famine.

• to find gold and silver.

Immigrants from Northern Europe who had come in the early 1800s were known as

• New Immigrants

• refugees

• Old Immigrants

• fun immigrants

Immigrants who came from Southern and Eastern Europe as well as Asia in the late 1800s were known as

• Fun Immigrants

• New Immigrants

• Old Immigrants

• Young Immigrants

The arrival of New Immigrants in the late 1800s changed the idea of who got to be considered ______________ in America and benefit from that privilege.

• a bad guy

• a citizen

• a good guy

• white

When most immigrants arrived in American cities, they lived in _________________ with people from their country of origin (where they came from)

• shacks

• log cabins

• tennements

• tents

The belief that people born in America are better than immigrants is called

• nativism.

• restriction.

• exclusion.

• rude.

Which two terms mean to limit or control the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States?

(PICK 2)

• Restriction

• Immigration

• Nativism

• Exclusion

What are two of the reasons Americans resisted immigration that we talked about in class?

• White Supremacy

• Fear that immigrants will take their land.

• Fear that immigrants will take their jobs.

• Fear that immigrants will take their schools.