The impact of immigration, 1917–80:

Question 1

When did the Dillingham Commission make its report?

Answer 1

1911

Question 2

What percentage of the US urban population was black between 1910 and 1920?

Answer 2

1.2% and 4.1%

Question 3

The percentage of people who were foreign born or with foreign-born parents rose by how much between 1910 and 1920?

Answer 3

74% to 85%

Question 4

How many Mexicans were deported during the Great Depression?

Answer 4

400,000

Question 5

Which Immigration act passed in the 1910s introduced a list of ‘undesirable’ immigrants and imposed a literacy test for those aged 16 & over?

Answer 5

1917

Question 6

What percentage of people from a particular country were allowed in to the US under the 1921 Emergency Quota Act?

Answer 6

3%

Question 7

The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act was passed in which year? This act reduced the number of immigrants from a particular country to 2% of the current population of immigrants from that country?

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

The National Origins Formula was passed in which year confirming what two pieces of legislation.

Answer 8

A cap of 150,000 immigrants and banned Asian immigrants all together

Question 9

The number of people foreign born in New York, Chicago and Detriot rose by how much between 1920 and 1940?

Answer 9

3.206 million (9.294 million in 1910 to 12.5 million in 1940)

Question 10

What were the three largest groups in Boston’s 1920 foreign population?

Answer 10

Irish (24%), Canadian (17%), Italian (16%)

Question 11

What were the three largest groups of the foreign population in New York in 1920?

Answer 11

Russian (24%), Italian (19%), Irish (10%)

Question 12

Upon the US entering the war, what percentage of foreign born immigrants were Italian, German and Japanese?

Answer 12

Italian (14.2%), German (10.8%), and Japanese (less that 1%)

Question 13

How many Japanese immigrants/ US Citizens were put into internment camps in the US after the US declared war?

Answer 13

120,000

Question 14

Between 1959 and 1962, how many Cubans fled Cuba t the US?

Answer 14

200,000

Question 15

What was the name of Kennedy’s book that he wrote in 1958 regarding immigration?

Answer 15

‘A Nation of Immigrants’ (saying current immigration policies mocked the poem on the Statue of Liberty)

Question 16

When did Johnson pass the law that Kennedy was working on before he died regarding making immigration quotas illegal?

Answer 16

1965

Question 17

When Saigon fell in 1975, how many immigrants came from Vietnam?

Answer 17

130,000

Question 18

By 1985, how many immigrants came from Communist states?

Answer 18

700,000

Question 19

During the 1970s, how many Mexicans entered the country per year?

Answer 19

60,000

Question 20

During the 1970s LA created 645,000 jobs. What proportion of these jobs were taken by Mexicans?

Answer 20

1/3

Question 21

The Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) estimated how many immigrants were in the US, and how many were they deporting per year?

Answer 21

7,000,000 immigrants; 600,000 per year

Question 22

The Alien Registration Act in 1940 introduced the ‘green card’ system. This gave people with a green card what right?

Answer 22

The right to work and live indefinitely (assuming they were legal immigrants)

Question 23

In what year was the Displaced Persons Act passed which allowed for 415,000 immigrants over 4 years (within the quota limit)?

Answer 23

1948

Question 24

What was an alternative name to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952?

Answer 24

McCarran-Walter Act

Question 25

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allowed how many immigrants and how many Asian immigrants were allowed as a result of the act?

Answer 25

150,000 and 100,000

Question 26

The 1953 Refugee Relief Act extended which act for 214,000 immigrants from Europe?

Answer 26

1948 Displaced Persons Act

Question 27

When did Operation Wetback begin?

Answer 27

1954

Question 28

The Refugee-Escapee Act was passed to cover people escaping from communist countries. In which year was this act passed?

Answer 28

1957

Question 29

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was also called the Hart-Celler Act. What was the legislation that was passed?

Answer 29

Abolished quotas and set a limit of 170,000 immigrants a year and for more Asian immigration

Question 30

In which year was the Cuban Adjustment Act passed that gave citizenship to those leaving Cuba after 1959?

Answer 30

1966

Question 31

The Armed Forces Naturalisation Act of 1965 amended the 1965 Act for people who fought for the US in which wars?

Answer 31

First World War, Second World War, Korean or Vietnam War (or any other war)

Question 32

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1976 made what provisions?

Answer 32

Included the western hemisphere for the first time (the number of immigrants allowed is 20,000)

Question 33

The percentage of foreign born immigrants who were European between 1960 and 1980?

Answer 33

75% and 39%

Question 34

The percentage of foreign born immigrants who were Asian between 1960 and 1980?

Answer 34

5.1% to 19.3%

Question 35

The percentage of foreign born immigrants who were Latin American between 1960 and 1980?

Answer 35

9.4% to 33.1%