Review: Chapter 5: Immigrants and Urban Life

To adjust to a new life immigrants

• didn't learn to speak English and spoke their native language

• moved into neighborhoods with people from different countries

• moved into neighborhoods with others from the same country

• wanted to go back to their home countries

The Chinese Exclusion Act

• Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years

• Was the first time America banned a single group from America

• None of above

• All of the above

Mass transit is

• residential neighborhood outside of downtown areas

• leisure and cultural activities shared by many people

• giant retail shops

• public transportation designed to move many people

Many immigrants lived in these run-down urban buildings.

• cabins

• nickelodeons

• apartments

• tenements

Why were immigrants often forced to take low-paying jobs in cities?

• Immigrants lacked skill needed to get better jobs

• Americans refused to allow immigrants to farm

• It was illegal to allow immigrants higher paying jobs

• Immigrants did not have the tools to work other jobs

Because the switch to American life was difficult many immigrant families

• Chose to live in areas with mostly American families

• returned to their home countries

• moved into other areas with people form their home countries

• kept their native customs secret

What was the main change brought by the steel industry to American architecture of the late 1800s?

• Steel was used to build skyscrapers that needed limited city space

• Every building was built with steel fire escapes

• Residential neighborhoods called suburbs could be built cheaply

• Steel could be combined with brick to create new buildings

What did city governments do to try to improve city sanitation in the late 1800s ?

• built public hospitals

• hired full-time firefighters

• built water purification systems

• forced steel factories to limit pollution

Immigrants who came from Northern Europe in the mid 1800s?

• old immigrants

• tenements

• new immigrants

• sweatshops

Immigrants who came from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 1800s?

• tenements

• old immigrants

• new immigrants

• sweatshops