North and West European Americans (chap 5) #1-35

The expulsion of religious dissident Roger Williams from the Massachusetts colony led to the founding in 1639 of which denomination in Rhode Island?

A) Methodist

B) Baptist

C) Quaker

D) Seventh-day Adventist

Baptist

During the colonial period, one of the most frequent causes of social problems was __________.

A) nationality

B) religion

C) race

D) social class

religion

The civic culture included strong beliefs in __________.

A) Protestantism

B) Socialism

C) Evangelicalism

D) Communism

Protestantism

Who made up 18.9% of the U.S. population in 1790?

A) English

B) Irish

C) Native Americans

D) Africans

Africans

Federalist action toward the increasing foreign-born population took the form of __________.

A) expulsion

B) job discrimination

C) legislative actions

D) spatial segregation

legislative actions

Emerson tried to combat the __________ movement by appealing to the "smelting pot" concept.

A) immigration

B) nativist

C) ethnocentric

D) patriot

nativist

Anxiety mounted between 1820 and 1860 because new German and Irish immigrants were __________.

A) Catholic

B) Americanized

C) illegal aliens

D) violent

Catholic

Following 1820, shipmasters were required to __________.

A) file a directional plan

B) announce their ship's arrival

C) submit a passenger list to custom officials

D) expose passengers to the English language

submit a passenger list to custom officials

The Know-Nothing movement of the 1850s illustrates __________.

A) acceptance

B) avoidance

C) political apathy

D) xenophobia

xenophobia

Which former president sought to return to office on the Know-Nothing ticket?

A) Millard Fillmore

B) James Adams

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) George Winfield Scott

George Winfield Scott

The first European colonists were characterized by __________.

A) the necessity to survive

B) religious diversity

C) anti-British sentiments

D) a criminal background

the necessity to survive

Many Federalists believed that the large foreign-born population was the root of all evil in the United States. This is __________.

A) religious persecution

B) economic opportunity

C) scapegoating

D) resistance to assimilation

scapegoating

Most immigrant groups were forced to live in substandard housing. What was a typical response of dominant society?

A) Condemnation of the immigrants for living as they did

B) Attempts to address structural causes of the immigrant squalor

C) A sense of ethnic solidarity

D) Taking in immigrants as adopted families

Condemnation of the immigrants for living as they did

To what country did the Pilgrims first flee after leaving England?

A) Denmark

B) Sweden

C) Holland

D) Spain

Holland

Nineteenth-century British immigrants __________.

A) experienced widespread anti-British hostility

B) were the object of much ridicule on the vaudeville stage

C) clustered together in ethnic subcommunities

D) did not always like America, and many returned home

did not always like America, and many returned home

Margaret's departure from her homeland to the United States filled her with hope and anxiety, illustrating how the transition to a new land is a(n) __________ decision.

A) emotional

B) easy

C) coerced

D) logical

emotional

Arriving in a new destination with an unfamiliar cultural context can jolt one's world of reality. This jolt is known as __________.

A) xenophobia

B) culture shock

C) amalgamation

D) assimilation

culture shock

Between 1820 and 2011, about how many British people moved to the United States?

A) 2 million

B) 2.9 million

C) 5.5 million

D) 18.5 million

5.5 million

Which sport did colonists import from Holland?

A) Bowling

B) Kolf

C) Sailing

D) Cricket

Kolf

The __________ has its origins in the Dutch religious separatists.

A) Lutheran Church

B) Christian Reformed Church

C) Catholic Church

D) Baptist Church

Christian Reformed Church

New Amsterdam offers an early example of __________.

A) a pluralistic society

B) anti-Semitism

C) rigid social control

D) ethnocentrism

a pluralistic society

Which Louisiana city is identified as essentially "the Cajun capital"?

A) New Orleans

B) Baton Rouge

C) Shreveport

D) Lafayette

Lafayette

__________ is one of the French population segments identified in the text.

A) Descendants of the conquistadores

B) Migrants from African colonies

C) Migrants from the Asian Expulsion

D) Settlers in Louisiana

Settlers in Louisiana

New England French Canadians and Louisiana French illustrate __________.

A) amalgamation

B) attempts to assimilate

C) convergent subcultures

D) persistent subcultures

persistent subcultures

__________ has contributed the greatest number of immigrants to the United States.

A) France

B) England

C) Germany

D) Ireland

Germany

Germany has contributed __________ immigrants to the United States since 1820.

A) 500,000

B) 2.2 million

C) 4.8 million

D) 7.3 million

7.3 million

Approximately __________ million Americans trace at least some of their family to Germany.

A) 5 million

B) 7.3 million

C) 29 million

D) 47.4 million

47.4 million

Early German immigrants settled in __________.

A) New York

B) Maryland

C) Pennsylvania

D) Delaware

Pennsylvania

The "German Triangle" consisted of Cincinnati, Milwaukee and __________.

A) Philadelphia

B) Chicago

C) St. Louis

D) Green Bay

St. Louis

Franklin was opposed to the large German population in Pennsylvania because __________.

A) many were Mennonites and pacifists

B) they were racist

C) they had little knowledge of American customs

D) he worried they would overrun government elections

he worried they would overrun government elections

__________ was/were a source of controversy for German Turnvereine.

A) Social-welfare legislation

B) Abortion rights

C) Prostitution

D) Temperance unions

Social-welfare legislation

The nineteenth-century German immigrants were __________.

A) diverse in religion, occupation, and area of residence

B) mostly lumberjacks living in the Midwest

C) mostly political refugees living in the eastern cities

D) mostly Sephardic Jews

diverse in religion, occupation, and area of residence

Which push factor was responsible for the majority of German immigrants?

A) Religion

B) Economic

C) Political

D) Psychological

Political

__________ was a characteristic that helped mark many Irish as outsiders in the United States.

A) Religion

B) Urban culture

C) Small population

D) Rebelliousness against Americans

Religion

Arguing against the nativist position in 1852, a Massachusetts senator argued that the __________.

A) nativists were being bigoted

B) Irish should be recognized as a superior race

C) Irish were inferior and therefore they lift up everyone else

D) nativists needed to recognize that they, too, were once immigrants

Irish were inferior and therefore they lift up everyone else