The Progressive Era

____________________ is the process by which larger numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.

• Industrilization

• Urbanization

• Mechanization

• Progressivism

A ___________ is an area of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal or economic pressure.

• Rural

• District

• Colony

• Ghetto

During the late 1800's and early 1900's, many immigrants lived in these buildings where many people lived in close proximity to each other, often with many people living in a one or two room apartment.

• penthouse

• settlement house

• tenements

• bungalow

These institutions offered assistance to new immigrants and women who had moved to urban areas. They provided food, child care, recreational facilities, and lessons in English and other subjects.

• tenements

• settlement houses

• taverns

• row house

This institution was located in Chicago and was founded by Jane Addams in 1889.

• Mull House

• Addams House

• YWCA

• Hull House

This was a political machine that ran New York City from 1865-1934 and was led by Boss William M. Tweed.

• Hull House

• Tammany Hall

• The New York Brotherhood

• The AFL

What is the name of the area where immigrants coming to America in the late 1800's and early 1900's would land and go through the the naturalization process to enter the U.S.

• Trellis Island

• New York Island

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States transformed from a primarily urban society to a more rural society.

• True

• False

Thomas Edison is know for all of the following EXCEPT:

• Having over 1,000 patents.

• Brining electric light into homes.

• Inventing the phonograph.

• Inventing the telephone.

Who invented the telephone?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Cyrus McCormick

• Andrew Carnegie