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Question 1

Many Americans feared that immigrants who passed through Angel Island would

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take jobs from Americans workers.

Question 2

What difficulty did both Chinese and Japanese immigrants face when trying to pass through immigration stations in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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Chinese and Japanese immigrants were restricted by law from entering the United States.

Question 3

Which of the following groups was most likely to face interrogation at immigration stations during the 1800s?

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Chinese immigrants

Question 4

In the 1800s, an important motivation for both “old” and “new” immigrants to settle in ethnic neighborhoods was

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a common language.

Question 5

Almost half of the new immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1800s

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eventually returned to their home countries.

Question 6

Compared with “new” immigrants in the 1800s who tended to be Catholic or Jewish, most “old” immigrants were primarily

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Protestant.

Question 7

An example of a pull factor would be

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safety.

Question 8

A difference between Ellis Island and Angel Island was that

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many immigrants who passed through Angel Island were detained for long periods.

Question 9

A push factor is best defined as

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something that causes people to leave their country.

Question 10

A likely reason the majority of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island were European while the majority who passed through Angel Island were Asian is that

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New York is closer to Europe, and San Francisco is closer to Asia.

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