Gilded Age Day 3

Gilded Age Day 3

By Debbie Hernandez

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The opportunity for better freedoms and jobs led to an increase of

to the U.S

Multiple Choice

Why were people like those shown in this image hopeful about their future?

• Nativism and Social Darwinism were expanding in American cities

• The U.S. social security system provided financial and medical benefits

• There were many jobs and business opportunities in America

• American citites had large and comfortable tenement apartment buildings.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence correctly completes this diagram?

• The Bracero program was introduuced.

• The Chines Exclusion Act was passed.

• Russian radicals joimed labor unions in the United States.

• Irish families immigrated to the United States

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A potato famine in the 1840s and job opportunity brought an influx of

immigrants to the U.S  

Multiple Choice

During the late nineteenth century, many Irish immigrants were discriminated against for being —

• Opposed to machine politics

• Loyal to the United Kingdom

• Conscientious objectors

• Roman Catholics

Multiple Choice

what was the main reason given for the creation of these restrictions?

• Preventing the depletion of natural resources

• Discouraging antu-American activism

• Reducing competition for U.S. jobs

• Addressing a lack of urban houseing

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believed that people of other races or religions were inferior to Americans. 

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The U.S. banned the entry of any Chinese person in the

of 1882.

Multiple Choice

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was primarily a response to -

• increased U.S. presence in China

• competition for jobs on the West Coast

• Rapid growth in the Northeast

• China's action during the Boxer Rebellion

Multiple Choice

Which situation does this cartoon from the early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?

• The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest

• The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest

• The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants

• The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants

Open Ended

What pulled immigrants to the U.S?