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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before steamships, to what was sea travel for the immigrants directly tied?
(a) Occupations.
(b) Weather conditions.
(c) Trade.
(d) Piracy.

2. What was the occupation of the German immigrants who landed in St. Louis and Milwaukee?
(a) Construction.
(b) Brewing beer.
(c) Farming.
(d) Peddling.

3. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Sabotage.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Potatoes.

4. What percentage of the population is the largest single ethnic group?
(a) 52%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 47%.

5. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?
(a) Politics.
(b) Cuisine.
(c) The arts.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. The most affluent groups have experienced ________________ discrimination.

2. Immigrants on cargo ships could not select their______________.

3. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?

4. What was the occupation of the majority of Irish immigrants in the 19th century?

5. What percentage of arrests in New York City during the 1850s were made of drunk and disorderly Irishmen?

(see the answer key)

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