Chapter 2: Cities and Industry Review

From which areas did new immigrants come to America between 1865 and 1914?

• Eastern and Central Europe
• South and Central America
• The Middle East
• Southwest and Central Asia

What is the best answer for why people of the Jewish religion came to the United States?

• famine (starvation)
• religious freedom
• an end to suffrage
• gold and riches

Which title best describes this list?

• Reasons for Westward Expansion
• Reasons Why Colonists Immigrated to Europe
• Reasons for the Development of Cities
• Reasons for Increased Immigration to the United States

Which factor would have caused the immigrants in the passage above to want to leave their homes in Russia?

• Hope for better opportunities, like a job
• Escape from an oppressive government
• Hope for adventure in the United States
• The desire to use new inventions

Select the best title for the chart.

• Reasons for the increase in political machines.
• Reasons for the increase in labor union membership.
• Reasons for the increase in longer work hours.
• Reasons for the increase in immigration.

The cartoon above illustrates that immigrants ____.

• were not very interested in coming to the United States
• were faced with a long ocean passage to the United States
• were only allowed to enter the United States in limited numbers (small amounts we controlled)
• were always welcome in the United States

Most immigrants settled in big cities because big cities offered ...

• poor schools
• land ownership opportunities
• beautiful tenement homes
• job opportunities

What effect did the mechanization of farms have on the United States?

• Mechanization created more farm jobs.
• Mechanization created better agricultural products.
• Mechanization caused more people to move to cities to find jobs.
• Mechanization caused more people to move to farms to find jobs.

Which innovation was responsible for a decrease in the need for workers in rural areas of the United States?

• crop rotation
• dry farming
• the cotton gin
• the mechanical reaper

Job opportunities caused movement in America. People moved from �

• the United States to Canada
• the rural countryside to the city
• the United States to Mexico
• cities to the country