Exam 6: South, Central, and East European Americans

The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 was much less restrictive than The National Origins Quota Act of 1921.

__________ was/were a hindrance to upward mobility for Italian immigrants.

__________theorists put a lot of emphasis on how people construct images of other groups of people according to stereotypes and very limited knowledge.

The new note in American nativism emphasized a racist claim of __________ for those with lighter skins, fairer hair, and earlier debarkation dates.

How does the functionalist viewpoint help us to make sense of the experience of white ethnics in the United States?

The epithet "honky" evolved from an ethnophaulism for what group?

By the 1980's, Polish American high school graduation was higher than all other European American groups.

__________ would be considered a "push" factor.

Mennonites from Russia made a valuable contribution to U.S. agriculture by introducing __________.

The Haymarket affair resulted in __________.

Assimilation due to labor regulations, housing codes, acculturation, and upward mobility might all be emphasized from which theoretical viewpoint?

Why do Gypsies remain a persistent subculture? How are they able to manage this?

Polish receptiveness to ethnogenesis is evidenced by their ___________.

The Haymarket Affair in 1886 set in motion which dominant group response pattern?

The immigrants from southern, central and eastern Europe arrived in large enough numbers to be able to preserve some of their old-country culture.

In 1880-1920, migration "push" factors included __________.

What were Americans' xenophobic reactions to the newcomers? Why do you think they had this reaction?

Hungarians became prominent through their __________.

What are "eugenic" explanations of culture? Are they valid? Give examples.

Explain how the Bolshevik revolution in Russia impacted Russian immigrants in America.