American Civilization Quiz

By 2008, the nation's total population grew to ______ million.

Immigration is a central aspect of ______ history.

Many tens of millions of people have come to live in the ______.

The nation's commitment to 'the ______' and to its ideal of being a refuge for the poor and oppressed gained popular acceptance.

The view that the nature of the nation was and should be a composite of many national ______ and cultures gained popular acceptance.

For most of the foreign-born, life in the ______ has meant an improvement over their situation in the ‘old country’.

Scandinavians had language problems that made them seem slow to comprehend, and at times they were ridiculed for their ______ ways.

German Jews were excluded from ______ and the professions and were shunned in many social circles.

The Irish suffered many forms of discrimination and were often stereotyped as ______, violent drunks.

Anti-foreign agitation reached its first peak in the ______.

In ______, the federal government took responsibility for regulating immigration.

Germans were welcomed for their ______ knowledge and industry, and admired for a culture that was Europe's most respected at that time.

Ellis Island was opened in ______ and was a famous screening depot for immigrants in New York Bay.

All the large immigrant groups found themselves involved in controversies over the control and content of the ______ schools.

The National Quota Acts represented the climax of a campaign for restriction that achieved its first result in ______.

The pseudo-scientific racism of the early 1900s, which purported to prove experimentally the superiority of ______ over all other 'races', was evident in the list and later legislation.

The influence of the ideological insecurity that grew after the ______ of 1917 was evident in the list and later legislation.

The Emergency Quota Act, passed in ______, drastically reduced the annual number of European newcomers to 358,000.

The Immigration Act of ______ provided a new approach to immigration.

During the Cold War, the US competed with the ______ for the allegiance of non-aligned nations.

The McCarran-Walter Act of ______ stated that race was no longer a reason for refusing someone an immigrant visa.

The ______ Act of 1952 reserved the first 50 percent of visas for each country for people with needed skills.

The national origins principle, which gave many ______ World countries tiny quotas, was kept in the law.

All nations in the eastern hemisphere had the same limit of ______ immigrants annually.

Among the poorest also include people who obtain visas because they are near-relatives of recent, more skilled ______ or who take jobs Americans do not want.

Latino women recruited by agencies as live-in domestic servants and ______ bring their families and forge the links in ‘chain migration’.

There are colonies of Hmong in ______, Vietnamese on the Mississippi Delta, east Indian hotel-owners across the Sunbelt, Middle Eastern Muslims in Detroit and New Jersey and large concentrations of Latinos.

The population of Latinos has grown by 70 to 80 percent between the most recent US federal ______.

These large foreign-born settlements have given rise to contemporary forms of ______ and nativism.

Some Americans are again resorting to broad ______ to adjust to the changes in their country's population.