The New Immigrants - Sections Questions
When you have finished reading the section on Immigration, in
order to show a full understanding of what you have read, you
should be able to answer the following using detailed, complete
sentences. The answers should be written in your notebook, and be
ready to have checked in next class.
1. How did immigration change AFTER 1865?
2. Why was the voyage to American often difficult?
3. What do you think was an immigrant’s greatest challenge upon
arriving in the United States? (hint:
the answer is not in the book; it is up to you to SPECULATE)
4. What were the working conditions in sweatshops?
5. Why would immigrants re-create traditional institutions in
their new land?
6. Why did some Americans blame immigrants for the nation’s
problems?
7. What was the purpose of each of the following immigration
laws: Chinese Exclusion Act,
“Gentlemen’s Agreement,” and the Immigration Act of 1917?
8. What is YOUR opinion of the nativist movement?
