Gilded Age Review (Westward Expansion, Industrialization, Immigration)

Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people

• Discrimination
• Favoritism
• Nativism
• Urbanism

What processing station did Immigrants go through on the WEST coast?

• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• Devil Island
• Alcatraz

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

• They settled in warmer climates
• They settled near water
• They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds
• They settled where immigrant officials sent them

What was multifamily housing that was often overcrowded called?

• Tenement

• Ghettos

• Communism

• Settlement Houses

What were the places called where immigrants could learn about life in the United States called?

• Settlement Houses

• Tenement

• Naturalization

• Socialism

Which of the following is not true about Tammany Hall?

• Tammany Hall was a New York Political Machine

• The Boss of Tammany Hall used the Spoils System to distribute government jobs

• The Political Boss of Tammany Hall was Boss John D. Rockefeller

• Immigrants and citizens were expected to respond to favors done by supporting them with votes for Tammany Hall

Which of the following describes the Pendleton Civil Service Act?

• It created a required examination for all government jobs

• It made the government purchase a certain amount of silver each month

• It divided the South into five military districts

• It limited the amount of immigrants that could enter the US

Where in Europe were the New Immigrants from?

• North and South
• South and East
• North and West
• South and North

What did America agree to do when they signed the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan?

• To stop sending immigrants to China
• To disband the Know Nothing Party
• To stop segregation in San Francisco against Japanese students
• To make segregated schools in California better

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad