Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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A pull factor in immigration is something that
a. | causes someone to move to some place. | c. | lifts people
up. | b. | makes a person want to stay where they are. | d. | pulls you away from where you want to
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Pull factors that caused people to want to move to the United States include a
better life, religious freedom, and
a. | poverty. | c. | available land. | b. | disease. | d. | unemployment. |
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Job opportunities attracted people to America's rapidly growing _____ in
the 1800s.
a. | cities | c. | rural areas | b. | farms | d. | universities |
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Most Jews came to the United States to escape religious persecution in...
a. | Western Europe | c. | Southern Europe | b. | Northern Europe | d. | Eastern Europe |
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The US responded to anti-immigration feelings by establishing immigration
_____.
a. | exams | c. | forms | b. | quotas | d. | surveys |
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People emigrated from their native countries for a variety of reasons (push
factors), including: overcrowding; poverty; scarce jobs; crop failures; and
a. | persecution. | c. | riches. | b. | wealth. | d. | freedom. |
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Immigrants adjusted to life in America by...
a. | forming communities | c. | adapting to a new culture | b. | finding
work | d. | all of
these |
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After 1900, immigration from Mexico, China, and Japan...
a. | decreased | c. | increased | b. | stayed the same | d. | never happened |
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Most Eastern European immigrants entered the US through...
a. | the Statue of Liberty | c. | Mexico | b. | Canada | d. | Ellis Island |
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Some say that immigrants to the United States created a blending of cultures
called...
a. | a salad bowl | c. | a bag of mixed nuts | b. | a melting pot | d. | a sack of trail
mix |
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What is the name of the Indian Reservation in Wyoming?
a. | Crow Creek | c. | Wind River | b. | Pine Ridge | d. | Cheyenne River |
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As immigrants moved west, they often came in conflict with what group of
people?
a. | Native Americans | c. | railroad workers | b. | Chinese | d. | buffalo hunters |
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For a time, immigrants in the Great Plains faced massive "clouds" of
what that ate their crops?
a. | tornadoes | c. | locusts | b. | fires | d. | droughts |
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The first immigrants and settlers to the Great Plains built what type of
houses?
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As more people moved to U.S. cities, especially immigrants, people in cities
suffered from increased sanitation problems, crime, fire, and
a. | wealth | c. | locusts | b. | crop failure | d. | poverty |
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