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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did many Japanese property owners in the U.S. put title to the land in the names of their children?
(a) The children were born in the U.S. and not subject to the Alien Land Law.
(b) The children could avoid excessive taxation.
(c) They hoped for greater prosperity for their children.
(d) They children could attract better marriage partners.

2. What did Nat Turner lead?
(a) A political party.
(b) A slave uprising.
(c) A black unit in the Civil War.
(d) The first black college.

3. Why did farmers in southern Italy live on hillsides?
(a) To hide from invaders.
(b) To avoid malaria.
(c) Because arable land was in the hills.
(d) To get a better view.

4. The longer the journey by ship took, the _______________ the people became.
(a) Weaker.
(b) More excited.
(c) More determined.
(d) Stronger.

5. What were early German immigrants able to do more thoroughly than others?
(a) Clear frontier land and make it productive.
(b) Invent useful machinery.
(c) Develop social networks.
(d) Govern themselves and others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group represents the most dramatic example of upward mobility among immigrants?

2. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?

3. Who did Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate in 1952?

4. Under the laws of the Manchu dynasty, what could Chinese men not return to China without?

5. Why have the Chinese been called "the Jews of Asia?"

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