Uran Gilded Age-> Progressive Era

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Based on the information in this graph, why did immigration increase rapidly between 1895 and 1905? Options: Railroad construction created the most jobs for migrants. Cheap land prices in the West attracted immigrant farmers. Availability of factory jobs greatly increased immigration. All of the answers are correct.

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Availability of factory jobs greatly increased immigration

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The movement of people from the countryside to cities is called...

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urbanization

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Which statement about nativism is most accurate? Nativists wanted to bring about an end to slavery, Nativists were opposed to immigration, Nativists were laborers who favored unlimited immigration, Nativists encouraged immigrants to settle in California.

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Nativists were opposed to immigration.

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An increase in the number of factories in the mid-1800's led to

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An increase in urbanization

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During the early 1900s, large number of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities where?

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In northern cities

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In the late 1800s, the increase in the number of tenement buildings resulted directly from the:

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Rapid population growth of cities

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In 1892, the United States government opened Ellis Island and Angel Island mostly to

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Process immigrants arriving from overseas

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Where did most Chinese immigrants end up working?

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Railroads

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During the Gilded Age, most immigrants came from...

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Eastern and Southern Europe

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Most immigrants found work as

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unskilled factory workers