Module 4: Immigration & Urbanization

Which of the following was a challenge faced by cities after the Civil War?

• Immigration continued to decrease in cities.

• The pace of urbanization slowed down.

• Movement to rural areas increased over time.

• Overcrowded tenements and ghettos existed.

Based on the information in this graph, why did immigration increase rapidly between 1895 and 1905?

• Railroad construction created jobs for immigrants.
  
• Cheap land prices in the West attracted immigrant farmers.
  
• Industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants.
  
• World War I caused immigrants to flee Europe.
  

Which statement about nativism is most accurate?

• Nativists wanted to bring about an end to slavery
• Nativists were opposed to immigration
• Nativists were laborers who favored unlimited immigration
• Nativists encouraged immigrants to settle in California

. In 1892, the United States government opened Ellis Island and Angel Island mostly to

• Defend New York City from attack
  
• Serve as the first federal prison in New York State
  
• Process immigrants arriving from overseas
  
• Check the safety of imported products
  

Which demographic shift occurred in the U.S. because of industrialization?

• working class people moving to the suburbs

• African Americans moving to the North

• Northerners moving South

• rural residents moving to urban areas

Most immigrants found work as

• scientists and technicians

• unskilled factory workers

• educated professionals

• skilled craftsmen

European Immigrants arrived at Ellis Island... Asian Immigrants arrived at...

• Whidbey Island

• Angel Island

• Alcatraz Island

• Manhattan Island

Tammany Hall was a...

• saloon

• Political Machine

• theater

• speak easy

The "bosses" of urban political machines often...

• denied voting rights to the poor

• wasted money on military spending

• discriminated against migrant workers

• accepted bribes in return for favors

Identify “pull” factors that brought immigrant groups to the U.S.

• Famine, lack of freedom and persecution.

• Children could work, the diversity of food they could buy, ghettos

• More Freedom, jobs, could own land, free education