Immigaration Quiz🚢

Question 1

Why did they want children to work??

Answer 1

They are cheap labor

Question 2

Three reasons parents wanted their kids to work..

Answer 2

1. Their families needed the money
2. They believed it built character
3. They believed that once kids learned to read, write, and basic math, they were educated enough

Question 3

Jobs for boys only

Answer 3

-breaker boys
-newsies
-cigar boys

Question 4

Jobs for boys and girls

Answer 4

Piece workers
Agriculture, picking tobacco
Mississippi Shrimp Pickers
Oyster plant

Question 5

Mother Jones

Answer 5

Union leader who worked to improve the lives of workers, especially children

An organizer for united mine workers

Traveled to mining camps and gave fiery speeches for better conditions and pay

Question 6

Fair labor standards act

Answer 6

Saying u have to be older for jobs

And better working conditions

Question 7

Old immigrants

Answer 7

Immigrants from northern and Western Europe
1840s-1890
Ireland Great Britain and Germany

Question 8

New immigrants

Answer 8

Southern and Eastern Europe
Late 1800s
Italy Poland and Hungary

Question 9

Push factors definition

Answer 9

Factors that cause ppl to move

Question 10

Four main Push factors

Answer 10

1. Population growth
2. Hunger
3. scarcity of arable land
4. Religion

Question 11

Pull factors definition

Answer 11

Attractions that draw ppl to a certain place

Question 12

Four main pull factors

Answer 12

1. Free democratic society
2. Jobs
3. Natural resources
4. “American letters”

Question 13

Steerage

Answer 13

Area below the ships deck where steering mechanisms were located

Question 14

Ellis island

Answer 14

Immigration island of the east

Built in 1892

Question 15

Steps of Ellis island

Answer 15

1. Six second exam
2. Physical exam
3. eye exam
4. 29 ? Interview

Question 16

What letter did you not want to be marked with at ellis island ?

Answer 16

e

Question 17

Foreign act 1882

Answer 17

Illegal for US employers to import foreigners as contact laborers

Question 18

What precent were deported at Ellis island

Answer 18

2%

Question 19

Tenements

Answer 19

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings

Question 20

Benevolent societies

Answer 20

Aid organizations offer immigrants help to the sick, unemployed

Question 21

Settlement houses

Answer 21

Community center that provides a lot of services to the poor

Question 22

What did many immigrants do

Answer 22

Help on to their old customs and way of life, it was easier for kids to become “American”

Question 23

What was the main tool of assimilation

Answer 23

education

Question 24

Why did Americanization happen

Answer 24

Because ppl felt threaten by the immigrants

Question 25

Nativism

Answer 25

Policy of favoring the interests of natural born Americans

Question 26

1894 immigration restriction league

Answer 26

Wanted to limit the immigration forcing immigrants to take a literacy test

Question 27

Stoop labor

Answer 27

Jobs many won’t do

Question 28

The Chinese were willing to …

Answer 28

Work for less money

(This created tension between working class whites and the Chinese)

Question 29

Chinese exclusion act of 1882

Answer 29

First time the US had restricted immigration based solely on race
Prevented Chinese from becoming citizens
Only allowed a little bit of Chinese to enter

Question 30

Angel island

Answer 30

The immigration island of the west

Question 31

Which immigration island was worse

Answer 31

Angel island

Question 32

At Angel island a failed iterview could end up with

Answer 32

Detained unsanitary conditions