Ch.13 Recap

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

• Angel Island
• Rhode Island
• Ellis Island
• Fools Island

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel Island

Which was a reason immigrants came to America?

• Hope for a better opportunity
• To avoid paying taxes
• Compete in the winter Olympics
• All of these

The new immigrants were from ____________.

• Northern and Western Europe
• Africa and Asia
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Australia and Africa

Even before the Civil War, ________________ had wanted to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born white Protestants.

• anarchists
• nativists
• census
• pogroms

Where were the "old" immigrants from?

• Northern and Western Europe
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Russia
• Austrailia

The _____________ stated that European countries would no longer be allowed to create new colonies or to interfere with the affairs of independent nations in the Western Hemisphere. 

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemen Agreement
• Monroe Doctrine
• Sherman Anti-trust Act

multi-family apartments, usually dark, crowded, and barely meeting minimal living standards

• skyscrapper
• graft
• tenement
• party boss

Immigrants tended to adjust well to living in the United States if they...

• learned English
• assimilated to American culture
• settled in communities with their own ethnicities
• all options are correct

Photojournalist ________ brought attention to the immigrants and poor who lived in the tenements and slums when he published a book called How the Other Half Lives

• Jacob Riis
• Jane Addams
• Teddy Roosevelt
• Ida Tarbell