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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, The Puerto Ricans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Pennsylvania Dutch regard politics and government?
(a) With confidence and trust.
(b) With distrust and disinterest.
(c) With expectations and hope.
(d) With great interest.

2. Japanese pieceworkers earned ____________ than whites doing the same work.
(a) More.
(b) More gradually.
(c) Less.
(d) More rapidly.

3. Among all ethnic groups in the U.S., Puerto Ricans in 1930 had the highest rate of what factor?
(a) Birth.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Years of education.
(d) Juvenile delinquency.

4. Most Japanese immigrants in the 19th century were young men from what kind of background?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Farming.
(c) Trade.
(d) Industry.

5. What early 20th century occupation was 90% done by Italians?
(a) Construction.
(b) Ragpicking.
(c) Mining.
(d) Bootblacking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field did the Irish immigrants to America achieve their first successes?

2. What did the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision declare that blacks did not have?

3. What mode of travel was first predominantly used in the Puerto Rican migration to the U.S.?

4. What did the Japanese government do when immigrants to Hawaii were unhappy with working conditions?

5. How many years did a German indentured servant typically have to work to pay off his transportation to America?

(see the answer key)

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