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Immigration Quiz

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

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 go.
 

 2. 

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.
 

 3. 

Job opportunities attracted people to America's rapidly growing _____ in the 1800s.
a.
cities
c.
rural areas
b.
farms
d.
universities
 

 4. 

Most Jews came to the United States to escape religious persecution in...
a.
Western Europe
c.
Southern Europe
b.
Northern Europe
d.
Eastern Europe
 

 5. 

The US responded to anti-immigration feelings by establishing immigration _____.
a.
exams
c.
forms
b.
quotas
d.
surveys
 

 6. 

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.
 

 7. 

Immigrants adjusted to life in America by...
a.
forming communities
c.
adapting to a new culture
b.
finding work
d.
all of these
 

 8. 

After 1900, immigration from Mexico, China, and Japan...
a.
decreased
c.
increased
b.
stayed the same
d.
never happened
 

 9. 

Most Eastern European immigrants entered the US through...
a.
the Statue of Liberty
c.
Mexico
b.
Canada
d.
Ellis Island
 

 10. 

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
 

 11. 

What is the name of the Indian Reservation in Wyoming?
a.
Crow Creek
c.
Wind River
b.
Pine Ridge
d.
Cheyenne River
 

 12. 

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
 

 13. 

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
 

 14. 

The first immigrants and settlers to the Great Plains built what type of houses?
a.
sod
c.
steel
b.
log
d.
tipis
 

 15. 

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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