Immigration in the Industrial Revolution

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What does Xenophobia mean?

A dislike or prejudice against people from other countries

Which person would be most likely to be able to legally emigrate to the United States in the 1890s?

A middle-aged healthy White Dutch man with no criminal record

What does the term "melting pot" mean as related to the United States?

A place or society in which immigrants of different cultures or races form a single culture.

Which of the following are some reasons that many U.S. citizens did not accept the new immigrants?

All of the answers are reasons

Which of the following is a kind of Primary Industry?

All of these are Primary Industries

Chinese, Japanese, and TransPacific immigrants were processed through which Island near San Francisco

Angel Island

Why did wealthy business men like the new immigrants?

Because they could pay them less than American-born workers

Which of the following is NOT a classification of industry

Dromedary

What answer best describes what industry is?

Groups of productive enterprises or organizations that produce goods, services, or sources of income

Which of these best describes Quaternary industries?

Is concerned with information or knowledge-based services

Where is Ellis Island located?

New York City

What does the term Nativism mean?

Preferring American-born people over foreign-born people.

The theory that individual groups and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection is:

Social Darwinism

Which of the following barred Chinese immigrants from entering the United States in 1882

The Chinese Exclusion Act

The Industrial Revolution was also know as

The Gilded Age

The time period from 1865 to 1900 in which America experienced tremendous growth in size, population, and social reform is known as

The Industrial Revolution

What was the first anti-immigration law passed

The Page Act of 1875

Which following is NOT one of the most notable achievements during the Gilded Age

The World Wide Web

The time period from 1865 to 1901 that America experienced tremendous growth in size, population, and social reform is known as

The industrial Revolution

Which of the following was Not a distrusted group of immigrants

White wealthy Protestant immigrants


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