Ch. 21 - Immigration & Urbanization

What type of music was developed by African Americans in New Orleans in the late 1800s?

• ragtime

• opera

• jazz

• vaudeville

What two newspaper giants popularized yellow journalism?

• Pulitzer & Morgan

• Vanderbilt & Carnegie

• Morgan & Carnegie

• Pulitzer & Hearst

When you leave your homeland, you are _____________ from there.

• emigrating

• immigrating

• isolating

• urbanizing

Immigrants sometimes felt __________________________ when they arrived in the United States.

• isolated

• employed

• recruited

• important

Some immigrants ____________________ by adopting American culture.

• were isolated

• emigrated

• assimilated

• disassociated

Many immigrants lived in these run-down urban buildings.

• cabins

• nickelodeons

• apartments

• tenements

This became a popular spectator sport in the US in the early 1900s.

• football

• baseball

• soccer

• basketball

These neighborhoods in cities were run-down, and many contained mostly immigrant populations.

• suburbs

• tenements

• slums

• Gold Coast

The Chinese were ________________________ to help build the Transcontinental Railroad.

• recruited

• rejected

• turned down

• fired

Jane Addams started a _____________________________ in Chicago to help the poor.

• hospital

• assimilation program

• hotel

• settlement house