Exam 3: Racism and Nativism in Immigration Policy

What is the difference between nativism and racism?

Which piece of immigration legislation was the first to deny entry to a specific group, thus paving the way for future racially biased immigration policies?

Describe the1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Identify and discuss the two main consequences of the Act.

Which of the following claims would a proponent of IRCA, who relies on nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment, use to garner support for placing tighter regulations on immigration?

Up until the 1970s, over 80 percent of Mexicans who came to the United States were temporary farmworkers. The passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, and subsequently the 1986 mass legalization laws, resulted in:

Identify and discuss three ways in which contemporary nativism differs from the nativism of a century ago. Provide two specific examples of contemporary nativism.

Immigrants from which Caribbean country are nearly always welcomed into the United States as long as they make it to U.S. soil?

Immigration policies that restricted people from certain regions of the world in the early 20^th century were tied to the eugenics movement.

Throughout its history, the United States has offered unequivocal citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.

In 2001, Congress proposed a bill which would provide undocumented youth who finish high school in the U.S with a path to U.S. citizenship. The act was known as:

When Italians began migrating to the United States, they often faced discrimination and were even lynched on occasion in the South.

Between 1966 and 1981, large numbers of Asian Indians immigrated to the United States, with the majority of these new immigrants working in farm labor occupations.

Proposition 187 was proposed as a means of protecting the agricultural workers who had been working for decades in California.

Explain how nativism and racism are linked.

All of the following groups eventually became White in the United States EXCEPT:

The motivation for both the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924 was to:

Explain how proponents of California's Proposition 187 relied on racial imagery to promote the bill. Is the bill relevant today, even though it was never implemented? Why or why not?

Immigrants from the Caribbean have only been coming to the United States since World War II.

The first immigration policies were focused on restricting Mexican immigration.

What aspect of U.S. immigration policy has changed over time?