CIV US : FOUNDING MYTHS AND LAND OF IMMIGRANTS

Question 1

Date of Declaration of Independence

Answer 1

1776

Question 2

popular expression use in 19th-century by Horatio Alger in his novels ? (link to the american dream )

Answer 2

“from rags to riches”

Question 3

What are the lines of poet Emma Lazarus engraved on the statue’s pedestal ( StOfLib)

Answer 3

“Give me your tired , your poor , your huddled masses yearning to breathe free “

Question 4

What are the name of theory about diversity in USA ?

Answer 4

The “ Melting Pot “ Theory

Question 5

Percent of Americans belong to a volunteer organization

Answer 5

60%

Question 6

What is social Darwinism ?

Answer 6

Adaptation of Charles Darwin’s theories on the evolution of the species to the economic principles of laissez faire

Question 7

By who the social Darwinism theory was popularized in Great Britain ?

Answer 7

The philosopher Herbert Spencer

Question 8

By who the social Darwinism theory was popularized in Usa ?

Answer 8

Yale professor William Graham Sumner

Question 9

Percents of Americans who move each years ?

Answer 9

10%

Question 10

What the frontier days/period ?

Answer 10

The settlement of West in 18/19 th Cty

Question 11

lower middle class incomes ranging ?

Answer 11

From 35000$ to 75000$ dollar a year

Question 12

upper middle class income ?

Answer 12

100000$ and more

Question 13

Percent of pop who are in the upper middle class ?

Answer 13

15%

Question 14

Before the covid percent of pop live below the poverty lines ?

Answer 14

10.5 %

Question 15

Poverty line for a family of four in 2020

Answer 15

26200$ a year

Question 16

What years Louisiana was bought to Napoleon ?

Answer 16

1803

Question 17

In what year was taken by gunpoint Ohio and from who ?

Answer 17

1817 Indians

Question 18

In what year was taken by gunpoint Florida and from who ?

Answer 18

1819 Spain

Question 19

In what years was taken by gunpoint Texas and California and from who ?

Answer 19

Mexico between 1845 and 1848

Question 20

What’s mean the expression “manifest destiny” ?

Answer 20

This huge continent had been alloted by Providence to the American people for the purpose of fulfilling their mission

Question 21

Famous worlds of John Winthrop gov of Massachussets in 17th Cty on America destiny

Answer 21

” We are a city upon a hill , the eyes of all people are upon us “

Question 22

Crevecoeur French farmer of the 18th Cty about being an American

Answer 22

” Here , individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of man “

Question 23

What is the English Puritans ?

Answer 23

a group of Protestants

Question 24

Why English Puritans make a settlement in East Cost of USA ?

Answer 24

Because they took issue with the Church of England .

Question 25

Where Germans etablished permanent settlements ?

Answer 25

Pennsylvania

Question 26

What is the first name of New York and why ?

Answer 26

New Amsterdam Bc Dutch who settled first in NY.

Question 27

How much immigrants between 1840 and 1860 ?

Answer 27

10 million

Question 28

From where was the immigrants Btw 1840/1860 ?

Answer 28

British Isles , Netherlands and Scandinavian countries

Question 29

What is the concept for this rather homogeneous pop at the begining ?

Answer 29

WASP concept ( White Anglo-Saxon Protestant )

Question 30

How much immigants during the second great wave ? (1870/1920)

Answer 30

20 million

Question 31

How much Italians during the second great wave ? (1870/1920)

Answer 31

4.5 million

Question 32

How much Austrian-Hungarians during the second great wave ? (1870/1920)

Answer 32

4 million

Question 33

How much Russian and Poles during the second great wave ? (1870/1920)

Answer 33

3.4 million

Question 34

Date of creation of a literacy test (immigration)

Answer 34

1917

Question 35

What is the Quota Act ?

Answer 35

piece of legislation for limiting immigration

Question 36

How work the Quota Act ?

Answer 36

apportioned quotas according to the country of origin of immigrants and to the number of residents from each country already present in USA

Question 37

Number of rsdt from each country alreadypresent in USA (1921 and 1924 Quota Act )

Answer 37

1921>1910 1924>1890

Question 38

Part of quota to immigrants from Great Britain .

Answer 38

43%

Question 39

Idea behind Quota Act ?

Answer 39

"preferential immigration"

Question 40

Instrumental in dramatich shift in the origin of immigrants since 1960's ?

Answer 40

The Family Reunification in 1965

Question 41

Percent of admission today made due to " brothers and sisters act " preference system ?

Answer 41

80%

Question 42

Effect of Immigration Act of 1990

Answer 42

increasing qualified workers increasing total number (700k against 500k)

Question 43

How many illegal aliens are arrested each years ?

Answer 43

Btw 750k and 1 million

Question 44

How many illegal aliens reside in US ?

Answer 44

Btw 10 and 12 million

Question 45

When is the Muslim ban ?

Answer 45

January 2017

Question 46

Donald Trump to suppress the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA /2012 ) BUT ...

Answer 46

the Supreme Court ruled to keep obama's protection in place

Question 47

percents of Americans supporting these young "Dreamers" (DACA)

Answer 47

90%

Question 48

How many immigrants are refugees between 1945 and 1990 ?

Answer 48

3 million

Question 49

Where from refugies in 1960's and why ?

Answer 49

Cuba Bc Fidel Castro

Question 50

Where from the refugies in 1970's and why?

Answer 50

Vietnam + after Laos/Cambodia Bc communist

Question 51

refugies per year during the 1990's VS 2019

Answer 51

120k vs 30k

Question 52

% Immigrants in the US (2020)

Answer 52

15 %

Question 53

Option for become American linked with family ?

Answer 53

Having an American relative .

Question 54

Option for become American if you live in ?

Answer 54

Resided in the US regularly for 5 years ( 3 if married with US )

Question 55

How justify you live in America since years ?

Answer 55

Show the "green card"

Question 56

What is the green card ?

Answer 56

Permanent immigrant visa that gives them the right to work in the US ?

Question 57

What is the last option and funny way for become American ?

Answer 57

being born in the USA

Question 58

If you fulfilled prerequisites what's test have you to do ?

Answer 58

Show that you speak english / answer to question / testify you're a good moral character