Urbanization and Immigration Unit Test

The area inside the city is called ______.

• urban
• suburban
• rural

What term is used for a tall building with many stories?

• entrepreneur
• tenement
• labor union
• skyscraper

What term is used for a run-down and overcrowded apartment building?

• tenements
• entrepreneur
• corporation
• urbanization

_{What group lived in the tenement areas of large cities?}

• the poor
• the wealthy
• students
• the middle class

Most immigrants went through this processing center in New York City...

• Pearl Harbor
• Long Island
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island

This was the first law passed to limit immigration to the US...

• Immigration Act of 1917
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Asian Exclusion Act
• European Exclusion Act

What attracted many immigrants to the United States?

• cheap land
• plentiful jobs
• the promise of freedom
• all of the these

Political bosses and Political machines used these methods of manipulation and coercion to maintain control in municipal and locally elected public offices during the nineteenth-century .

• Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
• Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
• Using police forces to protect organized labor
• Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference

Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs, housing, and police protection in exchange for

•  graft.
• votes.
• kickbacks.
• wages.

An extreme dislike for foreigners by native-born people

• nativism
• tenement
• individualism
• Social Darwinism