Immigration and Their Impact

Immigration & Migration

Video (TAKE NOTES) & Formative Questions

Multiple Select

Select two of the push factors that immigrants experienced when migrating to U.S.

• Wanting religious freedom

• Wanting to engage in war

• Escape poverty

• Technological innovations

Multiple Choice

A person moving from Europe to the United States looking for better jobs/lives

• Immigration

• Internal Migration

• Great Migration

• Urbanization

Multiple Choice

Urbanization is the growth of cities

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

• Made the crime rate decrease
• Led to an increase in farm workers
• Make the cities cleaner and safer
• Led to an increase in population in the cities

Multiple Choice

Which best describes the living conditions of most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution? 

• Most immigrants lived in rural areas with few other people around
• Most immigrants lived in cities in extremely crowded buildings
• Most immigrants lived in single-family homes
• Most immigrants lived in homeless shelters year-round

Multiple Choice

African Americans moving from the South to the North looking for better jobs/lives

• Immigration

• Internal Migration

• Great Migration

• Urbanization

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

What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

• Mixing Bowl

• Angel Food Cake

• Fish Tank

• Melting Pot

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

Nativism is

• the idea that Native Americans should have more land

• the distrust of immigrants by Americans

• a fear of radical ideas

• hatred of all people by Native Americans

Immigration Cartoon Activity

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• Complete the activity below

• This will show you how Nativism was viewed throughout America