Industry and Immigration

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The ___________ was an important invention in communications that made it easier for people to talk to each other over wires.

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telephone

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Which of the following explains why some European immigrants came to the United States? Many were farmers in Europe. Good farmland was scarce there. There was abundant, rich farmland in the US.

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Many European immigrants came to the United States because good farmland was scarce in Europe, while there was abundant, rich farmland in the US.

Front

How many major "waves", or periods, of immigration did the United States experience after the Civil War?

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two

Front

Urbanization created crowded, sometimes dirty cities. Assembly line jobs could be repetitive and boring. Steel production sometimes polluted the air and water. These are examples of

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the costs of rapid growth

Front

When more Americans could afford the ______________ and _____, the use of the inventions grew quickly.

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telephone , car

Front

Someone who buys or uses goods and services

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consumer

Front

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the

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telegraph

Front

Which answer choice gives an example of a benefit and a cost of industrial growth?

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Many factories opened in cities and provided jobs to thousands of immigrants. But many of the immigrants lived in crowded, unclean tenements.

Front

Who was the famous Danish immigrant who photographed and wrote about the terrible conditions of immigrants in the tenements of New York City?

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Jacob Riis

Front

The growth of cities is called _____________________.

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urbanization