An Urban Society

Describe the voyage to America.

• Great food & lodging
• Crowded, diverse, smelly
• Quick, exciting, fun
• Entertaining, crowded, quick

Describe Immigrants from 1840-1885.

• Many could speak English - easier time blending into U.S.
• From Italy, Poland, Greece, China, & Japan
• Most could not speak English
• Most of them were elderly people

Give examples of immigrant "push" factors.

• Promise of a better life
• War or religious persecution
• Religious Freedom
• Religious Freedom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

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

Give example of immigrant pull factors?

• Overpopulation
• Political Persecution
• Abundance of Land & job opportunities
• War

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They were not allowed to practice their religion.
• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

True of False:  Immigrants made many positive contributions to the US.

• True
• False

Who was the African American scientist who created more than 300 products from peanuts and sweet potatoes?

• The Wright Brothers
• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Washington Carver
• Thomas Edison

In late nineteenth-century cities, doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers, social workers, architects, and teachers made up a growing

• middle class.
• tenement class.
• wealthy society.
• working class.

Most urban working-class families lived in multifamily apartment buildings called

• suburbs.
• skyscrapers.
• tenements.
• work houses