Responses to Immigration

It is a process that spans generations and involves a fair share of ambivalence. The loss of traditions and a psychic sense of displacement mix with the benefits of becoming a middle-class American. There are always two sides to every bargain.

The above description is describing what process?

• Industrialization

• Assimilation

• Urbanization

• Naturalization

What is one unique quality of Italian-American immigrants during the Gilded Age?

• They tended to respect familial authority, but reject institutional authority.

• They largely stayed in America once coming to the country.

• They shared a lot of qualities with "Old Immigrants"

• They came from Northern Europe.

The political cartoon best exemplifies what philosophy?

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Darwinism

• Social Reform

• Capitalism

What is the best example of Americanization?

• Moving from Italy to an ethnic enclave in New York City.

• Emigrating to the United States to work in the steel factories.

• Temporarily moving to California from China to work on railroad construction.

• Emigrating from Eastern Europe to Western Pennsylvania and enrolling your son in a local school.

"Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for - public ends would work good to the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life."

This excerpt best exemplifies what principle?

• Americanization

• Industrialization

• Capitalism

• Gospel of Wealth

The move to establish Settlement Houses best exemplifies:

• A desire to segregate immigrants and the poor

• Reform to tenement housing

• A desire to bring rich and poor together to alleviate stresses of poverty

• A desire to Americanize recent immigrants

Who famously established Hull House?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jacob Coxey

• Jane Addams

What group of people would not be labeled as inferior by Social Darwinists?

• Recent Russian Jew immigrant.

• Tenement dweller.

• Protestant German immigrant.

• Union steel worker.

What social reformer famously documented live among the poor in tenement houses in New York City?

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Adams

• Jacob Coxey

• Upton Sinclair

Immigration legislation during the Gilded Age targeted all of the following goals EXCEPT:

• A reduction of overall immigration from Europe

• Restriction of immigrant labor from Asia.

• Prevention of Chinese citizenship

• A mechanism to deport "unlawful" immigrants