The Immigrant Contribution Review

Why would a person go through naturalization?

Even the American dinner table has felt the impact.

What TWO main hopes did nearly all immigrants to the US share?

If a group has several factions, what must be true?

Nearly all immigrants, in both the present and the past, transport their customs as well as their baggage.

Which of the following words would be examples of CHARGED LANGAUGE?

Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

We all know about the spectacular immigrant success...In 1953 the President's Commission on Immigration stated...

Every ethinic minority, in seeking its own freedom, helped strengthen the fabric of liberty in American life.

We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer.

How is immigration a "gesture of faith in social mobility"?

This is the spirit which so impressed Alexis de Tocqueville,6 and which he called the spirit of equality.

Which of the follow was NOT an immigrant contribution to American society?

When poor, ill-educated and frightened people... in a strange land, ... they fell prey to unscrupulous businessmen

Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition; there will always be inequalities.

Which of the following is true about a simple sentence?

Which of the following is true about compound sentences?

of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, eighteen were of non-English stock...

What does the idea of 'equality' mean in the US?

Immigration provided the human resources.

Which of the following is an accurate description of descendant?

Alexis de Tocqueville visited the US in the early nineteenth century, and his book described what he found positively.

Oscar Handlin has said, “Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered..."

Which of the following is true about an appeal to emotion?

We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer, and these people make up the American Identity.

An appeal to reason would include...?

Which of the following is NOT a coordinating conjunction?

Which of the following would be an example of CHARGED LANGAUGE?

What is one OPINION JFK expressed in "The Immigrant Contribution"?

Which is true about complex sentences?

Which of the following is true about appeals to reason?

What doe the Latin root -nat- mean?

Immigration provided human resources...and kept the pioneering spirit of American life, the spirit of equality, and hope

Sauerkraut and pumpernickel are two German food names that are now part of American English.

Which of the following would be an example of CHARGED LANGUAGE?

Between 1880 and 1920 America became the industrial and agricultural giant of the world

Which of the following is NOT a subordinating conjunction?

What was the central idea of "The Immigrant Contribution"?

Many American writers are the children of immigrants, and the immigrant experience is one of their themes.

What does "melting pot" refer to?