Chapter 7 - Immigration and Urbanization

Located in New York Harbor, this became the dominant immigration processing center on the East Coast.

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Staten Island

• None of the above

Located in San Francisco Bay, was the major immigration processing center on the West Coast. Many Asian immigrants were processed here.

• Angel Island

• Staten Island

• Ellis Island

• None of the above

A melting pot is a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native languages and customs.

• True

• False

Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans. This movement gave rise to anti-immigrant groups and led to a demand for immigration restrictions.

• Progressivism

• Discrimination

• Nativism

• Social Darwinism

In 1882, Congress slammed the door on Chinese immigration for ten years by passing the ____________Act. This act banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials.

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Chinese Inclusion Act

• Chinese Removal Act

• None of the above

Under the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907–1908, Japan’s government agreed to limit emigration of unskilled workers to the United States in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order.

• True

• False

This simply describes the growth of cities.

• Rapidization

• Urbanization

• Progressivism

• None of the above

Designed to assimilate people of wide ranging cultures into the dominant culture.

• Social Gospel Welfare

• Americanization Movement

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

• None of the above

A type of multifamily urban housing that was often unsanitary and crowded.

• Tenements

• Shantys

• Row House

• Hull Houses

Subways and streetcars were major innovations in Mass Transit that dramatically impacted cities.

• True

• False