Immigration & Urbanization

Immigrants from China and Japan entered the US through which immigration station?

• Ellis Island

• Liberty Island

• Long Island

• Angel Island

After 1882, where did most European immigrants enter the U.S.?

• Ellis Island

• Liberty Island

• Angel Island

• Long Island

What law banned (stopped) immigration from China between 1882 and the end of WWII?

• Immigration Act of 1917

• The Nativist Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

A tenement was

• an apartment building in the suburbs

• an overcrowded quickly built apartment building in the slums

• a place in the slums that helped immigrants with housing, jobs, and daycare

Which of these is NOT an example of urban problems in the early 1900s?

• bad sanitation

• crime

• too many opportunities

• dangerous housing

What is urbanization?

• rapid growth of cities

• migration of farmers to foreign countries

• assimilation

• the growth of the suburbs

What were some of the countries that many New Immigrants came from?

• Italy, Greece, and Russia

• Mexico, Guatemala, and Canada

• France, England, and Greenland

• Australia, South Africa, and Spain

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Which of the following are pull factors during this time?

• Religious Freedom

• Job opportunities

• Dirty and dangerous cities

• cheap land

What allowed cities to build up and have many skyscrapers?

• really tall ladders

• lots of glass and chrome

• cheap steal and the elevator

• subways

How did most New Immigrants travel to the US?

• on a ship in first class

• on an airplane

• they walked

• on a ship in steerage