Ch 5 Immigrants and Urban Life

Old immigrants were which of the following?

• arrived in the United States before the 1880s from northern Europe

• arrived in the United States starting after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

New immigrants arrived in the United States

• from the 1800 to 1860

• from the 1850 to 1870

• during the 1880s

• during the 1900s

The steerage part of a ship

• was for wealthy passengers only

• persecuted people for their religion

• persecuted people for their ethnicity

• were cheap tickets on a ship for immigrants

Ellis Island

• in San Francois allowed Chinese immigrants into the United States

• in New York was the first European immigrant process center for immigration

• in El Paso allowed Mexican immigrants to find jobs in construction, mills, and mines

To adjust to a new life immigrants

• didn't learn to speak English and spoke their native language

• moved into neighborhoods with people from different countries

• moved into neighborhoods with others from the same country

• wanted to go back to their home countries

Ellis and Angel Island were both

• locations of settlement houses

• immigration processing centers

• centers of shipping and industry

• amusement parks

The main goal of Hull House was to

• provide jobs for wealthy women

• pass the Tenement House Act of 1901

• help poor immigrants

• oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act

Anti-immigrant feeling resulted in

• benevolent societies

• the Chinese Exclusion Act

• tenements

• the Tenement House Act

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were

• settlement houses

• skyscrapers

• tenements

• benevolent societies

Hot stuffy workshops in which workers prepare materials for low wages in neighborhoods were

• factories

• sweatshops

• tenements

• mass transit