P6 CH. 25 APUSH

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

• Tenements
• Ghettos
• Townhouses
• Plantations

Many Irish-Catholic and Chinese immigrants helped improve the infrastructure of the United States by building what?

• The Erie Canal
• The interstate highway system
• The transcontinental railroad
• The White House

Why did people come to America?

• They wanted more freedom.
• They were looking for jobs.
• They suffered famine and war in their own country
• All of these are reasons they came to America.

The belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers is called:

• Patriotism
• Americanization
• Nativism
• Assimilation

People moving from the rural areas to cities is called...

• Ruralization

• Urbanization

• Colonization

• None of these

By 1890, most European immigrants to the US were from ___ and ___ Europe.

• Western and Southern
• Western and Northern 
• Eastern and Southern
• Eastern and Northern

Which best describes the working conditions of most immigrants?

• Most immigrants worked long hours in low-paying industrial jobs
• Most immigrants worked as farmers in rural areas
• Most immigrants worked as bookkeepers or other professional jobs
• Most immigrants worked as tailors or other skilled jobs

Poor sanitation led to what? 

• Increase in sanitation related technologies 
• Disease such as outbreaks of cholera & typhoid
• Large numbers leaving the city 
• a boom in te recycling industry 

Most nativists of the late 1800's would most likely have supported the...

• creation of settlement houses to aid new immigrants
• passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
• continuation of the contract labor system
• assimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream culture

A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they...

• were better educated than native-born Americans
• had a higher standard of living than most Americans
• adapted easily to American culture
• competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers