Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?

• Main station for European immigrants
• Main station for Chinese immigrants
• Located on the EAST coast
• People were only there a few hours

Immigrants from Europe came here first.  They were taken by ferry boat here.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island

The Statue of Liberty represented all of these to immigrants EXCEPT what?

• Freedom

• Excitement for a new life

• Opportunity to be successful

• Fear for a worse life

Doctors examined immigrants for dangerous diseases because...

• They didn't want immigrants to bring diseases into the US

• They were discriminating against immigrants

• They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

• They wanted to spread disease

What is a metaphor for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

• Mixing Bowl

• Angel Food Cake

• Fish Tank

• Melting Pot

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• They were looking for work on farms

• Factories created many job opportunities.

• They wanted to settle on the frontier

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

 Which factor contributed to the shifting of population from rural to urban areas from 1870-1900?

• Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act
• Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland
• Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the counttryside
•  Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and laborers to cities

How did machines like the cotton gin affect people's lives?

• they made the price of goods increase because there was a low demand

• they lowered the price of goods, making products more affordable for people

• they made more people want to work on plantations

• they created jobs in factories for people