History Exam

Question 1

Define Assimilation

Answer 1

When you fit into a place, for example fitting into a new culture.

Question 2

Define Assylum

Answer 2

another country protecting a refugee from another country.

Question 3

Define Diversity

Answer 3

Differences between people, cultures, and things like religion.

Question 4

Define Emigration

Answer 4

leaving a country to go to a new one

Question 5

Define Ethnicity

Answer 5

common things in a group of people race, religion, etc

Question 6

Define Kidnapping

Answer 6

forced to go into a new country against their will.

Question 7

Define Green Card

Answer 7

a new person in a new country with new customs and cultures.

Question 8

Define Greenhorn

Answer 8

a new person in a new country with new customs and cultures.

Question 9

Define Undocumented immigrant

Answer 9

an immigrant who did not go through the legal procedures to enter a country and work or live there.

Question 10

Define Immigration

Answer 10

entering a country to live there.

Question 11

Define ICE

Answer 11

Immigration and Customs Enforcement regulates who comes in or out of the country.

Question 12

Define Legal Immigrant

Answer 12

A legal immigrant who entered the country following all legal procedures.

Question 13

Define Migration

Answer 13

moving from place to place.

Question 14

Define Naturalization

Answer 14

an Immigrant gaining citizenship in a country.

Question 15

Define Passport

Answer 15

A permit to leave the country.

Question 16

Define Pluralism

Answer 16

a society with a large amount of different ethnic, religious, or social groups.

Question 17

Define Quota System

Answer 17

a controlled amount of immigrants allowed to enter the country each year.

Question 18

Define Refugee

Answer 18

someone who is fleeing a country due to danger or persecution.

Question 19

Define Visa

Answer 19

a permit given by a government to legally enter another country.

Question 20

Define Landlord

Answer 20

Lord Of Land

Question 21

Explain The Potato Famine

Answer 21

All potatoes got Diseased causing people to die of starvation. get kicked out of their homes, or flee to America.

Question 22

When Did The potato Famine Start

Answer 22

1845

Question 23

When Did the Potato Famine End

Answer 23

1852

Question 24

How many people died from the famine

Answer 24

1 Million +

Question 25

In Steerage what were the conditions and what would you commonly bring?

Answer 25

Horrible. The bunks were small and meant for 3-6 people everyone crowded in steerage because it just barely met conditions. You would commonly bring your own blanket and pillows to sleep on the lice-infested straw mattresses.

Question 26

Steerage was also called......

Answer 26

Between Deck

Question 27

What happened About midnight on Nov 26, 1847?

Answer 27

Several boxes and barrels broke loose destroying everything tea, coffee, Sugar, Shorts trousers, vests coats,hankcrshifts, and potatoes.

Question 28

What was the cause of most deaths during the famine?

Answer 28

Disease, Blight, seasickness, starvation

Question 29

What was the 1 Export to the northern states?

Answer 29

Slave Picked Cotton even though they were against slavery.

Question 30

How many slaves were kidnapped from 1519 -1865

Answer 30

26M

Question 31

Who Said "All men were created equal"

Answer 31

Thomas Jefferson

Question 32

Between 1880 and 1920 ___ Immigrants came from mostly countries in ___________.

Answer 32

Between 1880 and 1920 26M Immigrants came from mostly countries in Europe.

Question 33

Define Ordeal

Answer 33

Difficult

Question 34

Define Din

Answer 34

constant sound

Question 35

Ok Heres Your Break

Answer 35

Break Over