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Quiz for Document 19.4: The Immigration Act of 1917

Quiz for Document 19.4: The Immigration Act of 1917

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Who was denied admission to the United States by the Immigration Act of 1917?

A person who came to the United States because he or she was promised a job

A child traveling with one of his or her parents

Women who traveled without their husbands

Men who had served in the militaries of their home countries

2. One of the primary purposes of immigration laws like the Immigration Act of 1917 was to ensure that immigrants coming to the United States were

white and Protestant.

not Communists or terrorists.

able to speak English.

able to support themselves.

3. Which of the following previously common practices was specifically prohibited by the Immigration Act of 1917?

The admission of war refugees to the United States

Indentured servitude

Slavery

The admission of immigrants fleeing religious persecution

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