Topic 11 Test Review

Along with economic troubles, what condition drove people to emigrate?

• high cost of housing
• weather
• persecution
• poor schools

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Most Asian immigrants went through the processing center on

• Ellis Island.
• Harbor Island.
• Long Island.
• Angel Island.

What settlement house was founded by Jane Addams?

• Hull House
• Settlement Aid House
• Addams House
• Jane's House

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

Who designed New York's Central Park and several parks in Boston?

• Jane Addams
• Frederick Law Olmsted
• Jacob Riis
• Louis Sullivan

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called

• high-rises.
• suburbs.
• tenements.
• studios.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Who wrote about tenant houses in New York?

• Louis Sullivan
• Grace Abbott
• Jacob Riis
• Mark Twain

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Rooting for the home team or a local star became a favorite pastime for people who attended

• ragtime shows.
• land-grant colleges.
• spectator sports.
• vaudeville shows.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

“We all trembled because of the strangeness and the confusion. . . . Some were weak from no movement and exercise, and some were sick because of the smells and the unfresh air. But somehow this did not matter because now we knew it was almost over.”

–Bianca De Carli

This 1913 excerpt describes how _____ felt when they saw New York City.

• new factory workers

• arriving immigrants

• skyscraper construction workers

• wealthy hotel guests

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

“Whereas, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory: Therefore,

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, and the same is hereby, suspended . . .”

–from the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, excerpted here, were passed in response to ____ in America.

• increasing crime

• rising unemployment

• anti-immigrant feeling

• overpopulation concerns

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

“The _____ is an institution in New York. The police deny its existence while nursing the bruises received in nightly battles with it. . . . The _____ is the ripe fruit of tenement-house growth. It was born there.”

–Jacob Riis

Which word best fills in the blanks for this description of impoverished life in New York City?

• gang

• tuberculosis

• settlement house

• party

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1