Industrial Revolution Section 5-6

Multiple Choice

What would be a Push Factor?

• Poverty

• Religious freedom

• Jobs

Multiple Choice

What was one of the first things immigrants saw as they arrived in New York Harbor?

• Statue of Liberty

• World Trade Center

• Yankee Stadium

• Trump Tower

Multiple Choice

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act

• The Asian Immigration Act

• The Chinese Labor Law

Multiple Choice

In the years before the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882,

• the immigration facility on Angel Island closed permanently.

• Congress and the president were completely unaware of racial tensions on the West Coast.

• the Workingmen’s Party changed tactics and advocated for immigrant rights.

• growing anti-Chinese sentiment resulted in violence.

Multiple Choice

Why did anti-immigration feelings develop during the Gilded Age?

• most immigrants were richer & better educated than native-born citizens.

• immigrants were running for political office.

• immigrants competed with native-born citizens for jobs

• the government's social programs were too expensive.

Multiple Select

Tenements in NYC were often ___________________.

• overcrowded and dirty

• spacious but dirty

• overcrowded but clean

• spacious and clean

Multiple Choice

Exposure of this industry would lead to cleanliness standards

• railroad

• oil

• textile

• meat packing

Multiple Choice

Why were unions formed

• poor living conditions

• women's rights

• prohibition

• poor working conditions