Immigration in the Gilded Age Review

Which was the main point of entry for immigrants

• Boston

• Crown Island

• Ellis Island

• San Francisco

If immigrants were sick they would be placed under _______ so they wouldn't get others sick

• Deportation

• Quarentine

• Medical leave

• Surveillance

What is this a picture of?

• Mercy Houses

• Steerage homes

• Tenements

• Grafts

Most immigrants traveled on the overcrowded third class on boats, known as

• Steerage

• Tenements

• Graft

• Economy

People wanted to come to America for

• The landscape

• Labor unions

• Job opportunities

• Nice and affordable housing

New Immigrants are from

• Western Europe

• Africa

• Northern Europe

• Southern Europe

• Eastern Europe

What is NOT a form of corruption during the Gilded Age

• Political Machines

• Graft

• Spoils System

• Purity Crusades

The boss of Tammany Hall, the most famous political machine in NYC

• Willam Tweed

• William McKinley

• Jacob Riis

• George Tammany

What was NOT a law/regulation restricting immigration?

• Gentleman's Agreement

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Pullman Act

• Quota Act

The majority of Chinese immigrants were initially attracted to America

• because they were recruited to work on the railroads

• to participate in a free market economy

• to escape religious persecution

• because of the Gold Rush