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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. What law helped establish the southern Italian crime syndicates?
(a) Gambling restrictions.
(b) Pro-immigration law.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Anti-immigration law.

2. What was one result of social isolation and fragmentation in Africa?
(a) Cultural interaction.
(b) Community development.
(c) Political and military vulnerability.
(d) Peace and quiet.

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

4. What is the largest single ethnic group in the U.S.?
(a) Irish.
(b) British.
(c) Italian.
(d) Mexican.

5. Where did the majority of Celtic Irish congregate?
(a) The urban Northeast.
(b) The rural North.
(c) The urban Southeast.
(d) The rural South.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The highest fertility rates are found in groups with the ________________ incomes.

3. What percentage of Italian immigrants were agricultural laborers?

4. What Irish product undermined the welfare of Irish people?

5. Which religion forbade the owning of slaves and produced many abolitionists?

(see the answer key)

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