Tomorrow we have a Quest (more than a quiz but not quite a test) on: Immigration vocabulary from The Visitor Part I: Immigration and the American Experience (4 pages – blue packet from last week – 3 stapled together and 1 loose page) Part II: Immigration Today (8 pages – white packet) Key ideas from Farmingville So you know what that means …

Fau- X -kooshketball – Immigration Unit

Rules of this X-treme version of this game When a student gets a correct answer, s/he is awarded the chance to shoot during one of two scoring frenzies. There will be a halftime scoring frenzy (at the 10 minute mark) and an end-of-regulation frenzy (not shockingly, at the end of regulation). In order for a made shot to count, the shooter must be wearing the proper safety equipment – his/her team’s goggles and helmet.

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit If you an immigrant and you have one of these, you are permitted to live and work in the U.S. legally: Green card

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit The process requiring a non-citizen to leave the country Deportation (or Removal)

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Process by which the U.S. Government holds non- citizens in immigration facilities while their deportation process is pending Detention

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Legal permission to live in a non-native country, given to people fleeing danger or persecution in their homeland Asylum

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit A form sent by the Deportation Office asking an immigrant to appear at their office with their luggage on a certain date is called a … Bag and Baggage Letter

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Bonus Question: What countries were Tarek and Zainab from? (must get both countries correct). Syria (Tarek) & Senegal (Zainab)

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit 65 million immigrants have entered the U.S. since 1820, what percent of that total was admitted between 1881 and 1920 a.30% b.35% c.40% d.45% ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit The Constitution says little about immigration except that it should be the responsibility of whom? Congress

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Which Amendment (passed in 1868) granted U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the United States? 14th

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What American industry actively recruited workers in Europe? Railroad

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Which immigrant group was the first Roman Catholics to arrive in large numbers to the U.S., a Protestant nation (at the time) Irish

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What was the name of the political party that was pro- native-born American and anti-Catholic-immigrants? Know Nothings

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit From 1881 – 1920, the majority of immigrants to the U.S. came from: a.Southern and Eastern Europe b.Ireland and Germany c.Scandinavia and Ireland d.Western and Southern Europe ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Anti-immigrant forces tried for many years to pass a law requiring that all immigrants have to pass a ___________ test: Literacy (reading)

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit By 1900, _____ out of 5 New Yorkers were either born in another country or were children of adults born in another country. 4

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Between 1861 and 1880, almost 200,000 immigrants came from __________ to the West Coast to help build the railroad. China

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit By 1870, the Chinese made up 20 to 30 percent of the labor force in California, which caused much ant-Chinese feelings. In 1882, Congress passed the _________ ___________ ______ prohibiting Chinese workers from entering the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit The National Origins Act (1924) limited the yearly immigration quota of each European nationality to ____% of its proportion in the U.S. population in

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Bonus Question: Name one ethnic group that the National Origins Act was specifically designed to keep out Italians, Hungarians, Poles

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit In the early 1900s, the steady flow of unskilled immigrants helped fuel the U.S. boom in manufacturing. Since World War II, however, unskilled immigrant workers have found work in which fields (name one): Agriculture, hotels and restaurants

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit ____ out of 4 people living in the U.S. with a university degree in the Sciences were born abroad. 1

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Bonus: Immigrants from which two countries started 30% of the high tech start-ups in Silicon Valley during the 1990s. (Must get both correct for credit) China and India

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Relatives of U.S. citizens made up the largest amount of immigrants to the U.S. in 2001, who made up the second largest group? a.Skilled workers and their families b.Refugees c.Asylees d.Illegal aliens ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Union leaders have long claimed that high levels of immigration to the U.S. will take jobs away from native born Americans. Specifically they claim that: The entry of unskilled workers into the economy keeps wages down

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Experts estimate that about _____ % of the foreign students who study in American universities do not return home to their countries after graduation. a.40 b.50 c.60 d.70 ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Name four of the six states that receive 2/3 of all immigrants. California; New York; Texas; Florida; New Jersey; Illinois

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What kind of workers inspired the violence in Farmingville, NY Day laborers

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What was the proposed solution to the day laborer issue in Farmingville? Creating a hiring center.

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit In the early 1900s, the government only offered this to immigrants: Free education for their children

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit This number of illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. every year: a.250,000 b.350,000 c.450,000 d.550,000 ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit In what year did the U.S. start monitoring its northern and southern borders? 1924

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What agreement, passed in 1994, between the U.S., Mexico and Canada was designed to increase free trade, create new local jobs in Mexico and hopefully keep people from illegally immigrating to the U.S. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit What agreement, passed in 1994, between the U.S., Mexico and Canada was designed to increase free trade, create new local jobs in Mexico and hopefully keep people from illegally immigrating to the U.S. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit How many people legally cross the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada every year? 500 million

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Increasingly, Mexicans are making up a smaller proportion of illegal aliens arriving in America. More and more illegal immigrants are coming from: a.Central America; the Caribbean; Asia b.Middle East; Eastern Europe and West Africa c.Central America; Asia; Middle East d.South America and Asia ***

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that all states must provide illegal aliens with what? Education

Fau-X-kooshketball: Immigration Unit Which of the following is NOT a reason that cracking down on sweatshops and other businesses that profit from using illegal immigrant labor has proved difficult? a.Job applicants can prove their eligibility to work with any one of 29 different documents b.Illegal aliens have little problem obtaining false documents c.Employers are not obligated to verify employees’ documents d.Sweatshops are often hard to find and located in undesirable neighborhoods ***