Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.  The southern Irish were the first non-Protestant immigrants to enter the United States in the early 1800s. 
2.  Catholic schools were important to the maintenance of ethnic identity among Catholic immigrants from Europe. 
3.  Worker unions provided southern Italian immigrants with upward mobility. 
4.  The Immigration Act of 1924 created an open-door policy for eastern and southern European immigrants. 
5.  Sephardic Jews came to America to avoid massacre in Spain and Portugal. 


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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