Immigration from Around the Globe
Italian Immigrants
Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe
Chinese and Mexican Immigrants
Closing the Door on Immigration
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What are refugees?
What is people who flee their homes or countries because of war, persecution, or other causes.
100
During the long voyage to America, what did they have to endure?
What is crowded, smelly conditions and poor food.
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What are pogroms?
What is organized and often violent persecutions of minority groups.
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Why did the first Chinese immigrants come to America?
What is to seek gold in California.
100
Define nativism and quota.
What is an attitude of superiority and resentment toward the foreign-born; a limit based on numbers or proportions.
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During the late 19th century, what type of immigrants came?
What is southern and eastern Europe, China, Japan, Korea, the Phillippines, Canada, and Mexico.
200
Where did Italian Immigrants live?
What is tenement buildings.
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What did Jews work as?
What is vendors, cobblers, butchers, carpenters, and watchmakers.
200
What was the Exclusion Act?
What is an act passed by Congress in 1882 that banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the US.
200
What are visas?
What is government documents that allow people from other nations to enter the country for a limited period of time.
300
Why did immigrants come the America?
What is came to America to escape from violence, poverty, or religious persecution in their homelands. Others came seeking economic opportunity.
300
Why did Italians come to America?
What is to escape poverty.
300
What type of discrimination did Jews face?
What is refused to accept Jew into private schools and clubs, hospitals refused to hire Jewish doctors,and Jewish lawyers were not welcome.
300
About how many Mexican immigrants entered the US between 1910-1920?
What is 500,000
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What happened in 1907 to Japanese immigrants at the small neighborhood of West Frankfort?
What is forbidden entry to the US.
400
What contributions did immigrants give to America's rapidly industrializing society?
What is built railroads, mined gold and silver, labored in oilfields, steel mills, coal pits, packing plants, and factories. America's cities and industries would not have grown as fast without them.
400
Where did Italian immigrants first arrive to in America? (the place)
What is Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
400
Were Jews still grateful they were in America?
yes.
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What were the jobs Mexican immigrants found?
What is jobs with railroads, mines, factories, canneries, and agriculture.
400
What happened in the 1920s?
What is a mob stormed through the Italian neighborhood of West Frankfort. The crowd was frustrated by mining strike and angered by band robberies that Italian criminals were rumored to have committed.
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What did immigrants bring to America?
What is brought a vibrant diversity to their adopted land. America became a truly multicultural society, enriched by customs, crafts, languages, and faiths of people from around the globe.
500
What did they have to pass in order to become a citizen?
What is pass medical exams and answer questions about how they plan to support themselves in America.
500
How much were they paid if they worked in sweatshops?
What is 25 to 40 cents a day.
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What are barrios?
What is Mexican neighborhoods.
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By 1927, how many immigrants were allowed to enter the US each year? Which race was excluded?
What is 150,000. East Asians.
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