Chapter 15 Urban America

Many immigrants came to the United States in part to escape from poverty and

• Europe’s class system

• The social ladder

• Europe’s labor laws

• Urban political machines

The vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast passed through a processing center located where?

• Angel Island

• Staten Island

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens?

• Workingmen's Act

• Chinese Immigration Act

• Taiping Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

At the end of the nineteenth century, immigrants made up a significant percentage of some of the country’s largest?

• Plantations

• Cities

• Farms

• Suburbs

In the late 1800s, many rural Americans moved to big cities in search of

• Better-paying jobs

• Political Power

• High Society

• Shorter work hours

Most urban working-class families lived in multifamily apartment buildings called

• Suburbs

• Tenements

• Skyscrapers

• Workhouses

In response to urban congestion, Boston and New York City built the first

• Tunnels

• Trolley Cars

• Overpasses

• Subway Systems

America’s industrialization made some people wealthy and created a growing

• Federal Government

• Middle Class

• Political Machine

• Agricultural System

By calling their era the “Gilded Age,” authors Mark Twain and Charles Warner were

• Praising industrial advances

• Warning against realism

• Criticizing corruption

• Pleading individualism

The application of the theory of evolution and natural selection to human society was known as

• Naturalism

• Social Darwinism

• Dynamic Sociolgy

• The Social Gospel