3.18 - U.S. Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

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3.18 - U.S. Immigration Vocabulary Quiz

Last updated almost 4 years ago

14 questions

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item

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The __________restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person" who had been in the U.S. for two years. In effect, it left out indentured servants, slaves, and most women. This Act was passed in 

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law passed that sought to prevent further terrorist attacks by allowing greater government access to electronic communications and other information; criticized by some as violating civil liberties is called the __________This Act was passed in __________

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Law targeting undocumented people from __________ in the United States. Gave the U.S. Attorney General additional powers.

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USA Patriot Act authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes after World War II.

True

False

Ellis Island is an Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

True

False

One of the motivating factors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to accomodate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

True

False

An immigrant that is seeking safety from dangers that occurred in their home town

Ellis Island

Indigenous

Undocumented

Asylum

law that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the Western Hemisphere

Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

USA Patriot Act

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant's home country

Colonization 

Deportation

DACA ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)

Immigration

An immigrant living in the U.S.without lawful permission

Indigenous

Undocumented

Asylum

Ellis Island

Act that prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship; establishes penalties for hiring illegal aliens and requires employers to establish each employee's identity and eligibility to work

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

USA Patriot Act

Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Ellis Island		The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Push Factor		problems in a new country make them move there such as Available Land, Job opportunities
Colonization		Migration to a new location
Immigration		Problem in their country makes them move out, such as Poverty, Religon, famine, Political prosecution
Pull Factor		Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

The __________restricted citizenship to "any alien, being a free white person" who had been in the U.S. for two years. In effect, it left out indentured servants, slaves, and most women. This Act was passed in 

law passed that sought to prevent further terrorist attacks by allowing greater government access to electronic communications and other information; criticized by some as violating civil liberties is called the __________This Act was passed in __________

Law targeting undocumented people from __________ in the United States. Gave the U.S. Attorney General additional powers.

Required all foreigners to take a literacy test to prove they could read a short passage in English. This effectively prevented people from poorer countries from entering the USA

1917 Immigration Act

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Naturalization Act of 1790

1924 Immigration Act

The Alien & Sedition Acts made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen, allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were known as dangerous or who were from a hostile nation and criminalized making 'false statements' critical of the federal government

True

False

USA Patriot Act authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes after World War II.

True

False

Ellis Island is an Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

True

False

One of the motivating factors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to accomodate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

True

False

An immigrant that is seeking safety from dangers that occurred in their home town

Ellis Island

Indigenous

Undocumented

Asylum

law that changed the national quota system to limits of 170,000 immigrants per year from the Eastern Hemisphere and 120,000 per year from the Western Hemisphere

Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

USA Patriot Act

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

The act of a government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrant's home country

Colonization 

Deportation

DACA ( Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)

Immigration

An immigrant living in the U.S.without lawful permission

Indigenous

Undocumented

Asylum

Ellis Island

Act that prohibits discrimination against job applicants on the basis of national origin or citizenship; establishes penalties for hiring illegal aliens and requires employers to establish each employee's identity and eligibility to work

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

USA Patriot Act

Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996

Ellis Island

The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people

Push Factor

problems in a new country make them move there such as Available Land, Job opportunities

Colonization 

Migration to a new location 

Immigration

Problem in their country makes them move out, such as Poverty, Religon, famine, Political prosecution

Pull Factor

Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

Required all foreigners to take a literacy test to prove they could read a short passage in English. This effectively prevented people from poorer countries from entering the USA

1917 Immigration Act

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Naturalization Act of 1790

1924 Immigration Act

The Alien & Sedition Acts made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen, allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were known as dangerous or who were from a hostile nation and criminalized making 'false statements' critical of the federal government

True

False