Industry/Immigration/Progressive Era

Old immigrants were which of the following?

• arrived in the United States before the 1880s from northern Europe

• arrived in the United States starting after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

To adjust to a new life immigrants

• didn't learn to speak English and spoke their native language

• moved into neighborhoods with people from different countries

• moved into neighborhoods with others from the same country

• wanted to go back to their home countries

The main goal of Hull House was to

• provide jobs for wealthy women

• pass the Tenement House Act of 1901

• help poor immigrants

• oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were

• settlement houses

• skyscrapers

• tenements

• benevolent societies

Hot stuffy workshops in which workers prepare materials for low wages in neighborhoods were

• factories

• sweatshops

• tenements

• mass transit

Jacob Riis exposed the horrible conditions in New York City and wrote How the Other Half Lives

• tenements

• schools

• factories

• sweatshops

Describe life in a tenement apartment building

• overcrowding

• unsafe buildings

• disease

• all of the above

When handmade products were replaced by machines and mass production

• industrialization
• revitalization
• reconstruction
• urbanization

allows products to be mass produced generally allowing the price to decrease

• assembly line
• push factor
• pull factor
• sharecropping

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair