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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. Under the laws of the Manchu dynasty, what could Chinese men not return to China without?
(a) Their savings.
(b) Their queues.
(c) Their wives.
(d) Their job training.

2. What vice did Jewish immigrants almost universally avoid?
(a) Pornography.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Organized crime.
(d) Gambling.

3. Who were the first free persons of colors?
(a) Indentured servants who had completed their indentures.
(b) Freed slaves.
(c) Native-born blacks.
(d) Blacks from other countries.

4. 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.

5. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Religion.
(c) Education.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Immigrants on cargo ships could not select their______________.

2. How did the Pennsylvania Dutch regard politics and government?

3. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?

4. Blacks are the only ethnic group that came to the U.S. under what condition?

5. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?

(see the answer key)

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