The quotation below is from the late 1890s about legislation requiring immigrants to pass literacy tests:

"It is said, however, that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens."
--President Grover Cleveland, 1897

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=QVAPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA663&dq=messages+and+papers+of+the+presidents+grover+cleveland+1897&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jN2BT7XFMKHa0QHj5YSTCA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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The quotation below is from the late 1890s about legislation requiring immigrants to pass literacy tests: 

"It is said, however, that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens." 
--President Grover Cleveland, 1897 

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=QVAPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA663&dq=messages+and+papers+of+the+presidents+grover+cleveland+1897&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jN2BT7XFMKHa0QHj5YSTCA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 

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anonymous · Answer

In the quotation, President Cleveland refers to "our best citizens." Which of these groups is included in Cleveland's interpretation of the country's best citizens? 

 Chinese Americans 

 Irish Americans 

 Italian Americans 

 Greek Americans

anonymous · Answer

This is a tough one. If I'd have to guess, I'd probably say Italian Americans. 

Like a number of other ethnic groups, they also suffered a number of attacks for being thought of as workers of "low education" by those that didn't appreciate their arrival in numbers. But of all of the immigrants on this list at the time, the numbers with which they immigrated to America with were probably the highest at the time as well.