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

2. Which group represents the most dramatic example of upward mobility among immigrants?
(a) Slaves.
(b) The illiterate.
(c) The Irish.
(d) The Polish.

3. What crop were most slaves in the U.S. producing?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Cotton.

4. How many of the emigrants from the potato famine died en route to America in 1847?
(a) Fifty percent.
(b) Twenty percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Five percent.

5. Who were the "Know-Nothings"?
(a) A pro-immigrant political party.
(b) A rude name for immigrants.
(c) An anti-immigrant political party.
(d) Immigrants who refused to participate in elections.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Immigrants on cargo ships could not select their______________.

3. What caused repeated conflicts between the Scotch-Irish and the Celtic Irish immigrants who arrived later?

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

5. How many people died of starvation or illness during the Great Famine of the 1840s in Ireland?

(see the answer key)

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