1. Jobs were readily available.
2. Government relief programs required immigrants to settle in cities.
3. Labor union leaders encouraged unrestricted immigration.
4. Immigrants were not permitted to buy farmland.

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation: Many immigrants during the waves of “new immigration” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, were leaving home in an effort to find work. The growing US economy and the rise of the machine age were creating large amounts of factory jobs in the urban centers of the North East. Many immigrants entered into cities such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia, found work and settled there.

1. Organized labor supported unlimited immigration.
2. Most immigrants to the United States were illegal aliens.
3. Industrial growth led to a demand for cheap immigrant labor.
4. Few immigrants came from western Europe.

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation: During the Gilded Age US industrial development was growing at an unprecedented rate. To fuel the increased demand for unskilled workers there was also an increase in immigration from southern and eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere. These immigrants became known as “New Immigrants” as they were from different regions than the western European immigrants of “Old Immigration”.

1. nativism
2. ethnocentrism
3. cultural pluralism
4. limited social mobility

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation: There are two major ideas on the integration of immigrants into American society, cultural pluralism and assimilation. Cultural pluralism calls for the immigrant to retain his or her ethnic identity within American society, they may live in ethnic neighborhoods (like Chinatown in New York or San Francisco) and continue to speak their native language, continue traditions and retain a clearly identifiable way of life. Assimilation is the concept of shedding traditional practices and language for a more “American” way of life, as well as the adoption of English.

1. far fewer immigrants arrived in the United States than in previous years
2. most immigrants chose to settle in the rural, farming regions of the western United States
3. increasing numbers of immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe
4. most immigrants were political refugees

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation: During the Gilded Age US industrial development was growing at an unprecedented rate. To fuel the increased demand for unskilled workers there was also an increase in immigration from southern and eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere. These immigrants became known as “New Immigrants” as they were from different regions than the western European immigrants of “Old Immigration”.

1. The desire for economic advancement has been a major reason for immigration to the United States
2. The ethnic mix of immigrants to the United States has remained mostly unchanged.
3. The number of immigrants has remained constant in each decade during most of United States history.
4. Nearly all immigrants have easily assimilated into American culture.

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation: Most immigrants to America have viewed it as “The Land of Opportunity” and have come here seeking economic opportunities. Many sought access to land or jobs or an escape from the rigid socioeconomic class structure of their homelands.

1. They lived in urban areas and most held lowpaying jobs.
2. They obtained free land in the West and became farmers.
3. They became discouraged with America and returned to their homelands.
4. They were easily assimilated into mainstream American culture.

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. increase economic opportunities for recent immigrants
2. encourage cultural diversity
3. restore an open-door policy toward immigration
4. restrict immigration through the use of quotas

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

1. considered physically and mentally superior to earlier immigrants
2. forced to settle in the cities of the Midwest
3. from China, Japan, and other Asian countries
4. culturally different from most earlier immigrants

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

1. “Help Wanted — Irish Need Not Apply”
2. “Go West, young man.”
3. “America — first in war and peace”
4. “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. reduce the number of illegal immigrants
2. keep out immigrants from former communist nations
3. return to an open immigration policy
4. encourage emigration from Western Europe

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. sell land in the West
2. recruit men for the military
3. ensure that there would be workers for the factories
4. avoid offending foreign governments

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

1. contributed little to enrich American life
2. refused to assimilate into American culture
3. took jobs from United States citizens
4. placed financial drains on social services

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

Speaker A: “Our nation has grown and prospered from the ideas and labor of immigrants. The
nation has been enriched by immigrants from different nations who brought new
ideas and lifestyles, which have become part of American culture.”

Speaker B: “United States industries are competing with established European manufacturers.
To prosper, American industries need the vast supply of unskilled labor that is
provided by immigrants.”

Speaker C: “Immigrants are taking jobs at low wages
without regard for long hours and workers’ safety. American workers must unite to
end this unfair competition.”

Speaker D: “Immigrants arrive in American cities poor and frightened. They are helped to find
jobs or housing. These newcomers should show their gratitude at voting time.”

Which speaker is most clearly expressing the melting pot theory?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

 Speaker A: “Our nation has grown and prospered from the ideas and labor of immigrants. The
nation has been enriched by immigrants from different nations who brought new
ideas and lifestyles, which have become part of American culture.”

Speaker B: “United States industries are competing with established European manufacturers.
To prosper, American industries need the vast supply of unskilled labor that is
provided by immigrants.”

Speaker C: “Immigrants are taking jobs at low wages
without regard for long hours and workers’ safety. American workers must unite to
end this unfair competition.”

Speaker D: “Immigrants arrive in American cities poor and frightened. They are helped to find
jobs or housing. These newcomers should show their gratitude at voting time.”
 

Speaker D is expressing an opinion most like that of a

1. labor union member
2. religious leader
3. factory owner
4. political party boss

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

1. many factory jobs were available in the East
2. little farmland remained to be settled in the Midwest
3. most immigrants came from the cities of Europe
4. city laws afforded special rights and protections for immigrants

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. Many United States citizens wanted to live abroad.
2. The United States had a shortage of labor.
3. Prosperous conditions in Europe resulted in fewer immigrants coming to the United States.
4. Immigrants provided United States industry with investment capital.

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation:

1. urban centers of the Northeast
2. plantations of the New South
3. mining areas of the Far West
4. farming regions of the Great Plains

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. immigration
2. property ownership
3. voting rights
4. access to public education

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. southern and eastern Europe
2. northern and western Europe
3. East Asia
4. Latin America

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. northern and western Europe
2. southern and eastern Europe
3. Canada and Latin America
4. China and Southeast Asia

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation: The majority of "New" immigrants were from Eastern European nations (such as Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, etc..) or Southern Europe (Italy, Greece, the Baltics, etc...). These nations tended to be culturally, linguistically and religiously different (more heavily Catholic for example) than the Northern and Western Europeans who had constituted the "old" immigrant groups of the early 1800's (mostly Irish, Germanic, and Scot) .