Immigration During the Gilded Age

Discriminating against people not born in the US is an example of..

• Racism

• Genocide

• Ageism

• Nativism

Asian Immigrants typically entered through...

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Coney Island

• Jersey Island

European Immigrants typically entered through

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Coney Island

• Jersey Island

The process of moving into cities was known as...

• Industrialization

• Migration

• Urbanization

• Immigration

(Check all that apply) Select the following PUSH factors that led to immigration into America.

• Religious Persecution

• America was a Dream Land

• Lack of Job Opportunity

• Desperate need for Vacation

This piece of legislation banned immigration from a particular Country in 1882.

• Irish Exclusion Act

• Indian Exclusion Act

• Mexican Exclusion Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Pull Factors for immigrants coming into the United States were...

• Freedom of Religion

• Hunger and food shortage

• Opportunity for new jobs

• War and violence

Tenements

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age

• Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age

• Immigration processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910

During the Gilded Age, how were monopolies harmful to the American economy?

• They eliminate competition

• The urban growth rates decreased.

• Technological innovation became harmful.

• Critics believed European industries had an advantage.

This was a book written by Andrew Carnegie that expressed the belief that affluent people should give back to the poor.

• Gospel of Wealth

• Americanization Movement

• Nativism

• Social Darwinism