Chapter 5, Lesson 2 Quiz - Immigration

What caused Chinese immigrants to look for jobs on farms in the 1870s?

• The Angel Island Immigration Station closed.

• The American economy weakened in the 1870s.

• They had finished working on the transcontinental railroad.

• Chinese immigrants were prevented from working in factories by the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Which of the following was a push factor for immigrants to leave their homelands?

• starting a new business

• laboring as a sharecropper

• a lack of jobs and opportunities

• working on the transcontinental railroad

Who was Mary Tape and what did she do that was significant?

• She was a Chinese-American woman who fought segregation in public schools.

• She was a non-Chinese American woman who hired Chinese immigrants to work at her restaurant.

• She was a Chinese immigrant sharecropper who worked to improve her and others’ working conditions.

• She was a non-Chinese American woman who wrote a well-known petition against the Chinese Exclusion Act.

What was one result of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• A. Chinese people had to live with members of their own family.

• B. Chinese people who left the United States needed permission to return.

• C. Chinese people had to sign a paper pledging loyalty to the United States.

• D. Chinese people were no longer allowed to work on the transcontinental railroad.

This prevented Japanese people from leaving Japan to come to the US

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• Immigration and Nationality Act (1952)

• Emergency Quota Act

• 14th Amendment

Immigrants from China and Japan entered the US through which immigration station?

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

• Angel Island