APUSH 6.8 & 6.9 Review Flashcard

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Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?
- They were primarily unskilled laborers.
- They were mainly female.
- They were predominately from southern and eastern Europe.
- They often formed ethnic communities.

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They were mainly female.

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Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

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Europe

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A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

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Jane Addams

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Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

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immigrants

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Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT: establishing day nurseries for working mothers, offering literacy and language classes for immigrants, teaching classes on cooking and dressmaking, organizing women workers into labor unions.

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organizing women workers into labor unions

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Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Options:
They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.
They established settlement houses in middle-class environments.
They avoid political involvement.
They endeavored to suppress immigrant cultures.

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They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.

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During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?
African Americans leaders, Educated middle-class women, Scandinavian immigrants, Labor leaders

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Educated middle-class women

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Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society.

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conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

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What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

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To restrict immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States.

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What is nativism and how did it manifest during the Gilded Age?

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Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. During the Gilded Age, nativism manifested through anti-immigrant sentiment, the formation of anti-immigrant organizations, and the implementation of restrictive immigration laws.