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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII, The Blacks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one tragic result of the U.S. government's restrictions on Chinese immigration?
(a) A low Chinese birth rate.
(b) A high rate of Chinese returning to China.
(c) A low return on Chinese investment.
(d) A high rate of suicide among Chinese men.

2. The "penal laws" imposed by the British on the Irish were intended to keep the Irish in what situation?
(a) Educated and healthy.
(b) Subjugated and impoverished.
(c) Upwardly mobile.
(d) Impoverished and frightened.

3. What advantages did early Irish immigrants have over others?
(a) They had business acumen and education.
(b) They had skills for industrialization.
(c) They spoke English and many were literate.
(d) They were hard workers and used to urban life.

4. What kind of work provided a start for most wealthy American Jewish families?
(a) Peddling.
(b) Unskilled labor.
(c) Farming.
(d) Manufacturing.

5. What area in the United States contained the greatest number of Jews ever assembled in one place on earth?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Boston.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of trouble did employers invite who mixed Italian workers from different villages?

2. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?

3. What did Chinatowns become in the 20th century?

4. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?

5. Why was American farming foreign to the Irish immigrants?

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