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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 high rate of suicide among Chinese men.
(b) A low return on Chinese investment.
(c) A high rate of Chinese returning to China.
(d) A low Chinese birth rate.

2. By the end of the 19th century, who controlled 2/3 of the labor done in New York City?
(a) White collar investors.
(b) Poltical bosses.
(c) Labor unions.
(d) Italian padrone.

3. Which religion forbade the owning of slaves and produced many abolitionists?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Catholic.

4. What gave free persons of color a head start over other blacks?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Legal protections.
(c) Nutrition.
(d) Job skills.

5. In their own land, the Irish were a _________________ people.
(a) Free.
(b) Independent.
(c) Conquered.
(d) Conquering.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area did Italian immigrants find success in California?

2. At the turn of the century, what was the population density of the lower East Side in New York?

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

4. Which Western country imported the most slaves?

5. What percentage of white families in the South owned no slaves at all?

(see the answer key)

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