Unit Test: The West, Immigrants, and Industrialization

What are poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called?

• Steerage
• Tenement
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Mass Transit

Which is NOT a reason people left their homelands?

• Famine
• Poverty 
• War
• Weather

The  purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to

• increase the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the US
• ban Chinese immigrants into the US.

A sweatshop is a

• Name for workshops because of long hours and hot, unhealthy working condition
• An eating place
• A hotel
• A department store

During the 1900s many people moved into

• Cities
• Warm Weather
• Farms
• Other Countries

Buildings ten-stories or higher that included steel framework and housed many businesses and people became known as…

• Tenements
• Skyscrapers
• Perimeters
• Urbans

What industry was greatly impacted by the development of railroads in the late 19th century?  

• Meat
• Steel 
• Cotton 
• Oil

  What is the Transcontinental Railroad? 

• First railroad line linking the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean
• Railroad line only on the west coast of the country
• Processing center for immigrants coming to America
•   Railroad line only on the east coast of the country 

What was the impact of the railroads in the development of the West? 

• Decreased migration to the west and decreased job opportunity 
• Increased migration to the west and increased job opportunity
• Increased migration to the west and decreased job opportunity 
• Decreased migration to the west and Increased job opportunity 

Who were the majority of workers during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad? 

• African American slaves  
• White colonists 
• War veterans
• Chinese immigrants