Final Exam Review 2

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A term that describes business transactions that cross state lines is

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Interstate Commerce

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Which of these is considered a pull factor when talking about immigration to America?
a revolution,
famine,
economic opportunity,
religious persecution

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economic opportunity

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The place in New York that became the processing center for immigrants in the 1890s was

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Ellis Island

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After the Transcontinental Railroad was finished, immigration to the US was restricted from what country with an exclusion act by Congress?

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China

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In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because

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factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

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A run down, overcrowded and sometimes unsafe apartment house was called a

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Tenement

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People who opposed the arrival of new immigrants in the US because the immigrants would work for lower pay were called

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Nativists

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The process through which immigrants become part of, or absorbed into, American culture is called

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assimilation

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Settlement houses, Like Jane Addams’ Hull House, were set up to

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help the poor in the cities.

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A Muckraker was a person who

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was a journalist who exposed corruption and problems in society.