Week 13 Quiz

The naturalization law of 1790 limited naturalization by race, and Congress extended it to persons of African nativity and descent in 1870. How many years apart were the two laws?

Select one.

• 70 years
• 90 years
• 82 years
• 80 years

Which statement best describes the quotas in the Immigration Act of 1924?

Select one.

• Every nationality had a quota based on the 1890 census, and immigrants from Asia were excluded entirely.
• Only immigrants from Asia had a quota, and immigrants from every European country entered without a limit.
• Every nationality had a quota based on the 1890 census, and the racial bar to naturalization was ended.
• The quotas were abolished for every nationality, and family reunification became the main way to enter.

Which pair of changes did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 make?

Select one.

• It abolished the national-origins quotas and gave preference to family reunification and skilled workers.
• It offered legal status to undocumented migrants and penalized employers who hired unauthorized workers.
• It ended the racial bar to naturalization for Asians but kept the national-origins quota system from 1924.
• It ended the racial bar to naturalization for Asians and abolished the national-origins quota system too.

Which description fits the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?

Select one.

• It abolished the 1924 quotas and opened a preference for nurses, skilled workers, and close family members.
• It offered legal status to undocumented migrants who entered before 1982 and penalized knowing employers.
• It offered legal status to every undocumented migrant in the country, with no cutoff and no employer rules.
• It defined a refugee as a person with a well-founded fear of persecution and created a resettlement office.

In the course archive (illustrative), E3 is a nurse who came in 1972 and E5 is a woman who resettled as a refugee in the early 1980s. Which pairing of narrator and law is right?

Select one.

• E3 came under the Refugee Act of 1980, and E5 came under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
• Both came under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which set one route for every newcomer.
• Both came under the Immigration Act of 1924, which still set the quotas for every nationality at the time.
• E3 came under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, and E5 came under the Refugee Act of 1980.

An illustrative hardware store posts a written rule that it will hire only people born in the country. Which concept fits the rule best?

Select one.

• Nativism acted on, which makes it discrimination and not only an attitude
• Xenophobia held privately, which makes it prejudice and not yet an action
• Structural inequality, which builds up across many institutions over decades
• A federal category, which the government uses to collect data on the population

Before the 2024 revision, how did the 1997 federal standards count people with origins in the Middle East or North Africa?

Select one.

• They left them out of the federal categories entirely, so they were not counted at all.
• They counted them within the Asian category, beside people with origins in East Asia.
• They counted them within the White category, which included the Middle East and North Africa.
• They counted them within Hispanic or Latino, which was asked as a separate ethnicity question.

The 2024 revision of the federal standards asks one combined question. How many minimum categories does that question list?

Select one.

• 5 minimum categories
• 7 minimum categories
• 6 minimum categories
• 8 minimum categories

OMB's 1997 notice describes the federal categories as built for collecting data on broad population groups. What does that tell you about a census category?

Select one.

• It is the issuing body's social-political category, not a biological or scientific group.
• It is a biological group that the issuing body measured once and has kept unchanged.
• It is a person's nationality, so the box shows which country the person is a citizen of.
• It is a scientific group that the issuing body revised only when genetic research changed.

In Ozawa v. United States (1922) and United States v. Thind (1923), what did the Supreme Court decide for a man born in Japan and a man born in India?

Select one.

• It held that both were citizens by birth under the 14th Amendment because their parents lived in the country.
• It ended the racial bar to naturalization for Asians and opened citizenship to immigrants from every country.
• It upheld an executive order that removed both men from the West Coast during the Second World War.
• It denied each man naturalization on the ground that he was not a white person under the 1790 rule.