Exam 4: The Golden Door

What motivated the Irish,Germans,Eastern and Southern Europeans,and Jews to migrate to the United States (push factors) What were their perceived pull factors and how did they find out about them?

For each of the groups discussed in the three immigration streams list one or two descriptive words that typifies native perceptions.Also list how accurate each description really was based on the information in the text.

The Jewish reform movement included all of the following except:

The "Golden Door" is sometimes called the "Isle of Tears" for this place:

The most popular landing site for European immigrants was in:

By the 1890s,the leading regions of immigrants coming to the United States were:

During the decade of the 1820s,America was a very popular destination for emigrants.

Many of the "Forty-eighters" supported:

The National-Origins Principle has been:

In 1875 the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that only the ________ ________ was empowered by the Constitution to regulate immigration.

List ten differences in third stream immigrants and either first or second stream immigrants.

Which cultural,political,and historical factors predisposed the Italians to struggle to assimilate once in the United States?

The newer Germans got along perfectly well with the established native Germans in the United States.

In spite of the rise of Italians,Austrians,and Russians,Germans continued to be the number one source for United States immigrants.

The Irish threatened the natives in America with their Roman Catholicism and activity in politics.

How is current immigration policy more humane toward non-European immigrants?

In the 1840s a virulent form of potato rot struck the Irish potato farmers.

All of the following were provided as main factors for the mass migration to the United States, except:

Russian Jews resembled Italians on this one factor.

The earliest Jews to arrive in the United States were called the Sephardim.