AP World History Unit 6: Migration Causes & Effects Practice Test
Practice migration as a connected process: push and pull factors, transport and recruitment systems, degrees of coercion, diaspora formation, home-society change, and receiving-society backlash.
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35 Questions
AP World History Unit 6: Migration Causes & Effects Practice Test
10 Easy • 15 Medium • 10 Hard Feedback appears after each answer.
Easy
Foundation • Question 1 of 35
Between 1845 and 1852, potato blight destroys repeated harvests in Ireland while British relief remains limited.
Which combination best explains the surge of Irish emigration during these years?
Easy
Foundation • Question 2 of 35
A German farming family in the 1880s receives letters from relatives in Wisconsin describing available land and factory work.
What migration mechanism is most directly illustrated by these letters?
Easy
Foundation • Question 3 of 35
Steamship fares across the Atlantic fall while voyages become shorter and more predictable after the mid-nineteenth century.
How did this technological change affect migration?
Easy
Foundation • Question 4 of 35
After slavery is abolished in the British Empire, plantation owners in Mauritius recruit workers in India on fixed-term contracts.
Why did plantation owners turn to indentured labor?
Easy
Foundation • Question 5 of 35
An Indian laborer bound for Trinidad signs a contract he cannot read and later discovers deductions for passage and housing.
Which feature of indenture does this evidence highlight?
Easy
Foundation • Question 6 of 35
Chinese workers arrive in California during the gold rush and later help build the western sections of the transcontinental railroad.
Which pull factor best explains this migration?
Easy
Foundation • Question 7 of 35
Villages in Guangdong receive money sent home by relatives working in Southeast Asia and the Americas.
What effect of migration is shown by these remittances?
Easy
Foundation • Question 8 of 35
A census of a mining district records overwhelmingly male Chinese and European migrant populations.
What social consequence could follow from this gender imbalance?
Easy
Foundation • Question 9 of 35
Italian migrants move seasonally between Europe and Argentina, sometimes returning home after harvest or construction work.
Which assumption about nineteenth-century migration does this example challenge?
Easy
Foundation • Question 10 of 35
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act bars most Chinese laborers from entering the United States.
What broader development does this law represent?
Medium
Application • Question 11 of 35
Australian colonies adopt measures that culminate in the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901.
What goal linked these policies to the White Australia ideal?
Medium
Application • Question 12 of 35
Russian peasants move eastward into Siberia as rail lines and state settlement programs expand.
Why is this case important for understanding Unit 6 migration?
Medium
Application • Question 13 of 35
Indian merchants establish communities in East African port cities while maintaining kinship and credit ties across the Indian Ocean.
Which concept best describes this pattern?
Medium
Application • Question 14 of 35
A recruiter in north India receives payment for each worker delivered to a colonial depot.
Why should a historian treat the recruiter’s promises cautiously?
Medium
Application • Question 15 of 35
A former indentured worker petitions a colonial magistrate about withheld wages and punishment for leaving an estate.
What can this petition most directly reveal?
Medium
Application • Question 16 of 35
After emancipation, sugar colonies recruit workers from India while Cuba continues using enslaved labor for several decades.
What comparison is most accurate?
Medium
Application • Question 17 of 35
A historian maps Irish migration to Boston, Liverpool, Canada, and Australia rather than only to the United States.
What does this wider map help demonstrate?
Medium
Application • Question 18 of 35
A village in southern Italy loses many young adults but receives regular remittances from migrants abroad.
Which statement best captures the mixed effect on the sending community?
Medium
Application • Question 19 of 35
New York newspapers blame immigrants for crime and low wages during an economic downturn.
Why might anti-immigrant politics intensify during such periods?
Medium
Application • Question 20 of 35
A Sikh community in Vancouver builds a gurdwara that functions as a place of worship, lodging, and mutual aid.
What does this institution show about diaspora formation?
Medium
Application • Question 21 of 35
A plantation colony records more men than women among early indentured arrivals, then a gradual increase in family settlement.
Which change would a historian most likely expect over time?
Medium
Application • Question 22 of 35
Japanese laborers migrate to Hawai‘i and the west coast of North America after the Meiji Restoration.
Which factor best connects this movement to global industrialization?
Medium
Application • Question 23 of 35
A British colonial report praises indenture as “free labor,” while worker testimony describes fines, confinement, and deception.
How should a student use these sources together?
Medium
Application • Question 24 of 35
A graph shows European overseas migration rising sharply after 1850, but it does not identify individual motives.
What claim can the graph support most securely?
Medium
Application • Question 25 of 35
Railroads carry migrants from inland villages to Hamburg and Bremen, where steamships depart for the Americas.
What historical relationship does this route illustrate?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 26 of 35
A student argues that indentured labor was simply “slavery with a new name.”
Which revision would make the comparison more historically precise?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 27 of 35
The same migrant community maintains its language and festivals while its children attend local schools and enter new occupations.
Which historical process is best illustrated?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 28 of 35
A colonial government requires indentured workers to carry passes and punishes unauthorized absence from plantations.
What does this policy reveal about labor mobility?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 29 of 35
A family decides between migrating to a city within its country and sending one member overseas.
Which evidence would best help explain the choice?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 30 of 35
A historian compares Irish famine migration with Indian indenture to the Caribbean.
What is the most important difference to preserve in the comparison?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 31 of 35
Letters home describe high wages abroad but also discrimination and dangerous work.
Why are such letters valuable evidence?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 32 of 35
A port city develops neighborhoods associated with Italians, Chinese, Jews, and other migrant groups.
What urban effect of mass migration is most directly visible?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 33 of 35
A receiving country first recruits foreign workers during a labor shortage and later restricts their entry after political backlash.
What does this sequence demonstrate?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 34 of 35
A student explains nineteenth-century migration only by saying “people wanted a better life.”
Which addition would most improve the explanation?
Hard
Advanced reasoning • Question 35 of 35
By 1900, millions of people have moved through voluntary, indentured, seasonal, settler, and coerced migration systems.
Distinguish why people moved, how free they were, and what changed on both ends of migration
If you missed cause questions, separate push factors, pull factors, and enabling conditions. Famine may push, wages may pull, and steamship networks may make the move possible; a strong answer does not collapse those into one cause.
For labor migration, distinguish free wage migration from indenture and other coercive systems. The legal status, debt obligations, recruitment process, ability to leave, and destination labor regime all matter.
For effects, always check both ends of the route. Ethnic enclaves, nativism, and labor-market change matter in receiving societies, while remittances, demographic shifts, and changing gender roles can reshape sending communities.
