Immigration and Urbanization

Which city developed because it specialized in the meat packing industry?

• Chicago
• Pittsburgh
• Detroit
• New Orleans

Which city developed because it specialized in the steel industry?

• New York
• Chicago
• Pittsburgh
• Detroit

American Indians were forced to relocate from their traditional homelands to –

• Ghettos
• Reservations
• Cities
• The West

Taking American Indian children from their parents and sending them off to boarding schools was the U.S. governments’ attempt to –

• give them a free college education.
• give them more opportunities to learn about their native language and lifestyle.
• assimilate them by changing their language and lifestyles.
• keep them from having to experience a life of hardship on reservations.

General George Custer and all of his men got killed in the –

• Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• Civil War.
• Battle of Wounded Knee.
• Battle of Little Bighorn.

Boss Tweed gained power by...

• using the political machine to get jobs and housing for immigrants.
• giving free medical care to workers injured at dangerous factory jobs.
• founding the Transcontinental Railroad.
• starting up the successful meatpacking industry.

Jane Addams is known for founding...

• reservations for Indians.
• hospitals for injured workers.
• the Transcontinental Railroad.
• Settlement Houses.

Which of the following was a challenge faced by cities after the Civil War?

• Immigration continued to decrease in cities.
• The pace of urbanization slowed down.
• Movement to rural areas increased over time.
• Overcrowded tenements and ghettos existed.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the increase in westward expansion after the Civil War?

• Desire for Adventure
• Advances in Technology
• Search for jobs paying low wages
• Former slaves desired a new beginning

Which of the following are reasons for the increase in immigration after the Civil War?

• Hope to live in a Ghetto, Religious Freedom, Desire to Escape the Political Machine
• Hope for better opportunities, Religious Freedom, Escape from Oppressive Governments
• Escape from Oppressive Governments, Desire for Adventure, Religious Freedom
• Hope for better opportunities, Escape from Oppressive Governments, Desire for Adventure