Immigration Quiz

What is the process of the increasing number of people living in cities called?

• Ruralization

• Urbanization

• Migration

• Suburbanization

What term refers to the policy of favoring native-born individuals over immigrants?

• xenophobia

• globalism

• nativism

• multiculturalism

Which law passed in 1882 prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the United States?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Indian Immigration Act

• Mexican Exclusion Act

• Japanese Immigration Act

What are the factors that attract immigrants to a new country called?

• Pull factors

• Push factors

• Migration factors

• Immigration factors

What are the factors that force people to leave their home country called?

• Pull factors

• Migration factors

• Stay factors

• Push factors

Which group of immigrants arrived in the United States before 1880? Like most of Mr. Rose's ancestors

• Immigrants from Africa

• Immigrants from Western and Northern Europe

• Immigrants from South America

• Immigrants from Asia

Which group of immigrants arrived in the United States after 1880?

• Asian immigrants

• Western Europeans

• African immigrants

• Southern and Eastern Europeans

What is the process of adapting to a new culture while maintaining old traditions from your homeland

• adjustment

• adaptation

• assimilation

• acculturation

What is a crowded and often run-down apartment building called?

• tenement

• mansion

• villa

• shack

What is the act of subjecting a person or group to mistreatment or hostility based on their race or religion called?

• Persecution

• Prejudice

• Racism

• Segregation