4.02 Quiz The Immigrant Experience

Question: All of the following factors lured people to the United States from European and Asian nations in the late 1800s except __________.

Answer: Shortage of good farmland.

Question: People left their homelands in the late 1800s for all of the following reasons except __________.

Answer: Tolerance of religious minorities

Question: Which of the following best describes an immigrant family’s experience at Ellis Island?

Answer: They were interviewed thoroughly, given physical examinations, and usually left the same day they arrived.

Question: How did the experience of most Asian immigrants at Angel Island differ from that of Europeans at Ellis Island?

Answer: It took longer and they were treated poorly, reflecting the widespread bias against Asians.

Question: Which of the following answer choices correctly matches an immigrant group to the region where most eventually settled?

Answer: Scandinavian-Midwest

Question: Where did the majority of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settle in the United States?

Answer: New York City

Question: Many Jewish immigrants were helped to assimilate into mainstream American culture by __________.

Answer: reading a Yiddish newspaper that included news and features aimed at helping them to acculturate

Question: Nativist responses to immigration and immigrants included all of the following except __________.

Answer: The Fourteenth Amendment

Question: What effect did the Dillingham report have on the American public?

Answer: It prepared public opinion to support new laws that would bring about an end to immigration.