View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under the Gentleman's Agreement, ____________limited the number of Japanese immigrants to the U.S.
(a) The job market.
(b) The United States.
(c) Japan.
(d) An international tribunal.

2. How many languages were and are spoken in Africa?
(a) Fewer than 500.
(b) More than 800.
(c) Over 1,000.
(d) Around 200.

3. What segment of the U.S. population has traditionally pushed for open access for Mexican laborers?
(a) Welfare workers.
(b) Agricultural employers.
(c) Hospital employees.
(d) The police.

4. What percentage of Puerto Ricans voted to be accepted as a U.S. state?
(a) 10%.
(b) 39%
(c) 60%.
(d) 74%.

5. How did Chinese immigrants finance business startups?
(a) Maintaining high credit ratings.
(b) Theft.
(c) Rotating credit associations.
(d) Borrowing from employers.

6. Why did many Japanese property owners in the U.S. put title to the land in the names of their children?
(a) They hoped for greater prosperity for their children.
(b) They children could attract better marriage partners.
(c) The children were born in the U.S. and not subject to the Alien Land Law.
(d) The children could avoid excessive taxation.

7. What was the Bracero Program of 1942?
(a) Deportation of illegal Mexican workers.
(b) Amnesty for illegal Mexican residents.
(c) Citizenship programs for illegal Mexican residents.
(d) Legal residence for contract Mexican workers.

8. What does the typical Chinese immigrant in the U.S. do more than others?
(a) Return to their homeland.
(b) Send money home.
(c) Intermarry outside their ethnic group.
(d) Work and study.

9. What was the Six Companies?
(a) A Chinese mutual aid association.
(b) A Chinese crime syndicate.
(c) A Chinese gang.
(d) A Chinese immigration association.

10. Most slaves worked in the farming of what product?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Sugar.

11. What is a "coyote"?
(a) A Mexican gang.
(b) An Aztec symbol.
(c) A smuggler of illegal immigrants.
(d) An illegal drug.

12. What did the Japanese government do when immigrants to Hawaii were unhappy with working conditions?
(a) Started a war with Hawaii.
(b) Repatriated them.
(c) Banned them from returning to Japan.
(d) Compensated them for lost wages.

13. How many slaves came to the Western Hemisphere?
(a) Ten million.
(b) Twenty million.
(c) One million.
(d) Five million.

14. What drug was introduced in the U.S. by Chinese immigrants?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Opium.

15. Who were the first free persons of colors?
(a) Native-born blacks.
(b) Blacks from other countries.
(c) Freed slaves.
(d) Indentured servants who had completed their indentures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "wetback"?

2. What was a "picture bride"?

3. What historical events at the turn of the century raised Japanese confidence?

4. Heightened, more militant group consciousness typically appears in which generation?

5. The generation gap between first and second generation Japanese immigrants was caused by _____________ marriages.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 479 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample