Immigration and Urbanization - SS.912.A.3.6

Immigration and Urbanization

SS.912.A.3.6 - Analyze changes that occurred as the United States shifted from agrarian to an industrial society.

Multiple Choice

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Multiple Choice

The phrase "New Immigration" mostly describes people who came to the United States from...

• Asia

• Africa

• Mexico

• Southern and Eastern Europe

Multiple Choice

What did Nativists believe?

• Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

• White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

• Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.

• All of the above.

Multiple Choice

What resulted from the advances in transportation and industry that occurred in America between the end of the Civil War and 1900?

• Thousands of people migrated to the West to escape the segregated South.

• Thousands of African-Americans migrated to the South because Reconstruction had ended.

• Thousands of people migrated from rural areas to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

• The U.S. government spent millions of dollars to complete a canal system to link Northern cities to the Mississippi River.

Multiple Choice

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

• Changing role of women in the home
  
• Increased federal aid for housing
  
• Need for health care facilities
  
• Rapid growth of urban populations
  

Multiple Choice

Most immigrants found work as

• scientists and technicians

• unskilled factory workers

• educated professionals

• skilled craftsmen

Exit Ticket

Multiple Choice

What is the attitude towards immigration in this political cartoon?

• positive; it is a holy endeavor to allow religious minorities into the US

• positive; allowing immigrants to escape military service is the right thing to do

• negative; European immigrants will bring their garbage lifestyles with them to the US

• negative; immigrants are infesting the US and destroying our culture

Multiple Choice

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.

• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

Multiple Choice

Most immigrants went through this processing center in New York City...

• Pearl Harbor
• Long Island
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island

Multiple Choice

Based on the information in this graph, why did immigration increase rapidly between 1895 and 1905?

• Railroad construction created jobs for immigrants.
  
• Cheap land prices in the West attracted immigrant farmers.
  
• Industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants.
  
• World War I caused immigrants to flee Europe.
  

Multiple Choice

What effect of the Industrial Revolution MIGHT this picture represent?

• the rise of the middle class

• the increase in urban population

• the spread of infectious diseases

• the organization of the health care system