QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER V
AIM: TO CONSIDER THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SLAVS AS IMMIGRANTS.
I. _The Slavic People as a Whole._
1. What nationalities are generally included under the term Slavs?
Are they numerous in population? Are they strictly of one race?
2. What grounds are there to justify popular prejudice against
them? Or to show it to be ill founded?
3. When did they begin to come in large numbers?
4. Where have they largely settled, and with what results?
II. _Racial Divisions of the Slavic Immigrants._
5. What can you tell about the Bohemians, as to their religious
history, political sufferings, and coming to America? What are
their conditions here? Their accessibility? Their location?
6. Tell about the Poles in the same way.
7. Tell about the Slovaks in the same way.
8. Tell about the Magyars in the same way.
9. Who and what are the Lithuanians?
10. Who and what are the Ruthenians?
III. _Slavic Elements of Strength and American Outlook._
11. Mention some encouraging features with reference to the
above-named and other Slavs.
12. * If you had been born a Slav in Europe, would you be likely to
prefer America to Europe? Protestantism to Roman Catholicism? The
country or the city?
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