M3L1 PRACTICE QUIZ

Read the text from Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" (1883).

Which is the best summary of Emma Lazarus's poem?

• I am the guardian who will judge you at the gate.

• Keep away from our shores unless you intend to behave yourselves.

• Bring all of your cultures and traditions to enrich our society.

• This country welcomes even the lowliest of immigrants.

Push factors influencing immigrants to leave Europe included all of the following except

• Religious intolerance.

• Insufficient food.

• The unequal treatment of women and people of color.

• Lack of economic opportunity.

Read the excerpt on nativism. 

Frequent targets of nativist sentiments have been...

• Outspoken women.

• Catholics and Jews.

• African Americans in the South.

Read the excerpt on nativism. 

Frequent targets of nativist sentiments have been

• Outspoken women.

• Catholics and Jews.

• African Americans in the South.

• Northern European immigrants.

Read the following excerpt on nativism. 

In general, nativism is likely to emerge at times when

• Americans are experiencing an up-swelling of nationalistic pride.

• There is economic or social upheaval in society.

• Immigration is low and ethnic groups are less likely to defend themselves.

• America has just taken part in a major war.

Nativism could best be described as 

• A desire shared by many existing white American populations to block or control immigrant groups.

• A desire to restore Native American culture and the celebration of Native American traditions.

• The deliberate effort to Americanize European immigrant populations.

• Private support for immigrant populations to retain their cultural heritage.

What does the term discrimination mean?

• Treating people unfairly because of their race, religion, gender, or other differences

• Moving from one country to another for better opportunities

• The belief that people born in the U.S. are better than immigrants

• A law that banned Chinese immigration to the U.S.

What was the Potato Famine?

• A disease that destroyed potato crops in Ireland, causing hunger and death

• A law that stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S.

• The main immigration station on the East Coast of the U.S.

• A treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexico War

What are push-pull factors?

• The belief that people born in the U.S. are better than immigrants

• Reasons people leave one place and move to another

• A treaty that gave the U.S. land in the Southwest

• A disease that destroyed crops in Ireland

What was Ellis Island? 

• A belief that people born in the U.S. are better than immigrants

• The main immigration station on the East Coast of the U.S.

• A treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexico War

• A law passed in 1882 that stopped most Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S.