Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 24.1: Nativism in the United States

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1. How did Lodge propose to limit migration to the United States from southern and eastern Europe?

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Correct. The answer is c. Lodge was confident that a literacy test for entry into the United States would “bear most heavily upon the Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English-speaking emigrants, or Germans, Scandinavians, and French.”
Incorrect. The answer is c. Lodge was confident that a literacy test for entry into the United States would “bear most heavily upon the Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English-speaking emigrants, or Germans, Scandinavians, and French.”
1. How did Lodge propose to limit migration to the United States from southern and eastern Europe?

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2. Which of these assumptions was at the heart of Lodge’s argument for restricting immigration?

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B.
C.
D.

Correct. The answer is a. Lodge saw immigrants from southern and eastern Europe as a threat to the “English-speaking race,” warning that if a “lower race mixes with a higher in sufficient numbers, history teaches us that the lower race will prevail.”
Incorrect. The answer is a. Lodge saw immigrants from southern and eastern Europe as a threat to the “English-speaking race,” warning that if a “lower race mixes with a higher in sufficient numbers, history teaches us that the lower race will prevail.”
2. Which of these assumptions was at the heart of Lodge’s argument for restricting immigration?