Immigration & Urbanization

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Immigrants from China and Japan entered the US through which immigration station?

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Angel Island

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After 1882, where did most European immigrants enter the U.S.?

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Ellis Island

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What law banned (stopped) immigration from China between 1882 and the end of WWII?

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

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A tenement was

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an overcrowded quickly built apartment building in the slums

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Which of these is NOT an example of an urban problem in the early 1900s? bad sanitation, crime, dangerous housing

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too many opportunities

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Falls Church, Vienna, and McLean are examples of which area?

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suburbs

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What is urbanization?

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rapid growth of cities

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What were some of the countries that many New Immigrants came from? Options: France, Great Britain, and Denmark; Australia, Mexico, and Spain;

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Italy, Greece, and Russia

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What allowed cities to build up and have many skyscrapers?

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cheap steel and the elevator

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How did most New Immigrants travel to the US?

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on a ship in steerage