The "Melting Pot" Model of Immigration Overly Simplifies the Way

question 61

Multiple Choice

The "melting pot" model of immigration overly simplifies the way that migration actually took place in U.S. history for all the following reasons, EXCEPT:

• A) Irish fleeing the potato famine faced severe discrimination when they arrived on U.S. soil.
• B) that within two generations, most European immigrants became part of the racial majority.
• C) many people came to the United States as slaves.
• D) immigration to the United States was highly destructive for indigenous people living in North America.
• E) Chinese immigrants were perceived as the Yellow Peril, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Acts.

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