Question 5

select the statement that most likely would have been made by an immigrant who traveled to america as part of the contract labor act.

there are no factories in europe; america will be a better place for finding work.

instead of going hungry from the famine, let's take what's left and go to america.

i can take my family's money and start a business in america.

i can be a landowner in america.

The correct answer is B)  Instead of going hungry from the famine, let's take what's left and go to America.

The statement that most likely would have been made by an immigrant who traveled to America as part of the Contract Labor Act is "Instead of going hungry from the famine, let's take what's left and go to America."

The Contract Labor Act or Alien Contract Labor Law was passed in 1885. It strictly prohibited American companies or individuals to offer labor contracts to immigrants, especially Asian ones. At that time, it was common to offer immigrants jobs but this was detrimental to white Americans. Those jobs offered to immigrants were low paid jobs, and white Americans thought that immigrants took their jobs.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)

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