APUSH Chapter 18

Select all the statements that describe a settlement house

• A house in the new frontier for people to settle in

• A place where immigrants could live and adjust to American life

• Focused on providing education and skills for women and children

• A place where wealthy people could settle in at the beach

The Gilded Age was characterized by (select all that apply)

• The rise in trusts and monopolies

• The growing gap between the rich and the poor

• An increase in factory jobs

• A rise in unions to demand fair working conditions

Select all the statements that led to an increase in urbanization during the Gilded Age

• Increased immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Increased immigration from Mexico

• Increase in factory jobs

• A rise in political machines that provided services in exchange for political support

One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...

• Feared immigrants would take all of the high-paying jobs

• Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land

• Thought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports

• Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

After a 7-10 day voyage in steerage, a European immigrant in the late 1890's would most likely be processed

• at the Statue of Liberty

• at Ellis Island

• in Washington D.C.

• at Angel Island

Which of the following is not a pull factor leading to increased immigration?

• availability of jobs

• religious and political freedom

• famine and oppressive government

• ability to climb social ladder

Where did "new immigrants" of the late 1800's primarily come from?

• China

• Northern and Northwestern Europe

• Russia

• Southern and Southeastern Europe

Why were businesses and factories opposed to immigration limits?

• immigrants provided a cheap source of labor

• many factory owners were immigrants

• they were invested in the shipping industry

• most immigrants died or returned home anyways

How did population change in the late 1800s?

• People moved to farms
• Many people moved south
• Immigrants went west for farms
• Immigrants settled in cities