1). What factor contributed to the large number of Irish who immigrated to the United States in...
Question:
1). What factor contributed to the large number of Irish who immigrated to the United States in the late 18th century?
A. By 1700, the Irish owned only 14 percent of the land they had lost to English conquest.
B. English landowners in Ireland changed the agricultural economy to livestock, thus eliminating more than 90% of the workers previously needed to plant and harvest crops.
C. British colonialism and the emphasis on exporting beef from cattle farming reduced the Irish peasant to poverty and hunger.
D. All other answers are correct.
2). What was the Irish "ethnic" strategy?
A. adapt to the American identity as quickly as possible.
B. identify with the African American experience.
C. reject American identity and maintain Irish culture.
D.maintain Irish accent
3). Which ethnic group was held up as a model for Irish workers?
A. African Americans
B the Japanese
C. the Chinese
D. Native Americans
4). To compete against the Chinese and African American worker, the Irish...
A. did nothing to compete.
B. invoked white privilege.
C. could not compete effectively with Chinese and African American workers.
D. allowed blacks and Chinese to have the best jobs.
5). Job competition between Irish women and black workers was most evident in...
A. the gold mining industry.
B. domestic services.
C. labor strikes.
D. there was no significant job competition between Irish and African American workers
6). A unique element of the Irish migration was...
A. the unwillingness of the Irish to work as manual laborers.
B. the number of single women who made the trip.
C. the lack of a cohesive ethnic identity.
D. None of the answers provided are true.
7).After the 1906 California earthquake
A. the San Francisco board of education separated Asian students to guarantee a spot for white children.
B. all the Japanese in California returned to Japan.
C. The Anglo-Americans blamed the Japanese for starting the fire that followed the earthquake.
D. Asians were accepted as honored immigrants in American society.
8). Which aspect of Chinese history has been a long-standing feature?
a wealth
B emigration
c industrialization
D. infrequent Anglo-Chinese wars
9). Chinese immigrants to the United States saw their passage as
A. a permanent move.
B. a movement that was destined to fail.
C. a temporary rather than permanent move.
D. something that could be done easily.
10). Japanese immigrants coming to America
A. intended to work only for a short time and then return to Japan.
B. were reluctant to come to the United States.
C. they were fleeing Japan's serious economic difficulties.
D. were very rich to begin with.
eleven). Searching for gold as miners during the gold rush...
A. Chinese men came to the United States with the primary intention of staying permanently.
B. The Chinese men brought few women with them.
C. Chinese men brought their wives and girlfriends to start families in the US.
D. None of the other answers apply.
12). A significant difference from Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Filipinos...
A. were as a group significantly wealthier.
B. had significant differences between them as a group.
C. had significant immigration restrictions immediately after the Spanish-American War.
D. were much more loved and welcomed in American society.
13). In 1910 Korean immigration to the United States ceased. Because?
A. Because Koreans no longer wanted to emigrate to the United States.
B. The United States passed a law to stop Korean immigration.
C. Koreans felt there were no opportunities in the United States.
D. Japan annexed Korea.
International Marketing And Export Management
ISBN: 9781292016924
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