Test Day

Today we took a test, which I think I did fairly well on. It wasn't very hard, and I feel confident in all my answers except for the one regarding German immigration. Here are a few topics the test covered today:

biggest fear is that the host countries culture will be lost because immigrants...

-adhere to different religions-speak different languagesQuota Act in 1921, National Origins Act in 1924
These laws established quotas, or maximum limits on the number of people who can enter the country in one year
1924- 2% could immigrate from each country
1965- hemisphere quota- east- 170,000 west-120,000
1978- global quota- 290,000/20,000 for each country
1990- global quota- 700,000 
The United States has 3 main eras of immigration
-Colonial Settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries
>>950,000 people migrated to the colonies in the early 17th century from Europe and slaves were transported from Sub-Saharan Africa to be used as slaves in America
-Mass European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
>>Between 1820 and 1920, about 32 million people immigrated to the United States, nearly 90% of them being from Europe. From Ireland, and Germany, immigration multiplied by 10, 75% of the immigrants came from Ireland and Germany. Ireland economic push factors, and German political unrest. Declined during U.S. Civil War. In Scandinavia, since the Industrial Revolution had spread there, population increased greatly, and many of them came to the U.S. Many of the immigrants from Europe was due to the diffusion of the Industrial Revolution and the increase in population.
-Asian and Latin American immigration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first countries
>>Immigration was low during the Great Depression and WWII, but it slowly increased and in the first decade in the twenty-first century, it was at historically high levels. Many of these immigrants came from Latin America and Asia. About 13 million Latin Americans have migrated to the U.S. in the past 50 years, nearly 500,000 annually. Around 7 million Asian have immigrated to the U.S. in the past 50 years. In 2006, Mexico passed Germany as the most people that have come from one country to the United States. Mexico became the leading source in about 1990.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act issues visas to the immigrants who entered without legal documents in previous years.
Types of Persecution
>>Race
>>Nationality
>>Religion
>>Political Views
>>Social Group
>>Domestic Violence (Put under the list under Obama)
There are other types of persecution
>>Gang Violence
>>Terrorism
>>Sexuality and Gender Orientation persecution
These are all a part of Surge, when a lot of people come to the country

-practice different food and cultural habits