Immigration

This person was responsible for creating the first settlement house that assisted immigrants in Chicago.

• Ida B. Wells
• Susan B. Anthony
• Jane Addams
• Martha Washington

Many immigrants were forced to live in __________, or run-down, dirty, and cramped apartment-like buildings.

• Tenements
• Ghettos
• Townhouses
• Plantations

What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

The stuffy, crowded lowest deck of a ship with the cheapest tickets that most immigrants traveled in.

• Last Class
• Storage
• Steerage
• Manifest

What was one factor that led to the creation of large ethnic neighborhoods in most American cities in the early 1900s?

• Immigrants were assigned housing by the federal government that worked to create ethnic neighborhoods. 
• Immigrants could not afford to live in the cities so they were forced to live in the countryside. 
• Immigrants felt more comfortable living with or around people of the same ethnicity.
• Immigrants were not able to live anywhere except neighborhoods that were assigned by ethnicity.

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Immigrants from Europe came here first.  They were taken by ferry boat here.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island

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Immigrants were checked for dangerous diseases because...

• They didn't want them to bring them into the US
• They were discriminating against immigrants
• They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

Most immigrants lived in places like the one in the picture. 

• Government owned housing
• hotels
• tenements
• mansion

Based on this picture, which section of the ship did most immigrants travel in to get to the U.S.? 

• first class
• second class
• steerage
• coach