Immigration and Urbanization

How did immigrants decide to settle where they did?

• They settled in warmer climates
• They settled near water
• They settled by people of similar ethnic backgrounds
• They settled where immigrant officials sent them

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel Island

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

• Angel Island
• Rhode Island
• Ellis Island
• Fools Island

Why were so few Chinese immigrants allowed to come to the United States?

• Very few tried to come
• The voyage was too far and expensive
• There were no jobs available
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Chinese immigrants were mainly employed by companies in which industry?

• auto building
• skyscraper building
• postage delivery
• railroad building

Immigrants had to pass a ___ inspection

• literature
• social studies
• health
• naturalization

All of the following are ways that immigrant groups dealt with discrimination except

• maintaining a strong support group
• Living in communities with immigrants of the same ethnicity
• Their children adapted to the new environment
• taking jobs of native born citizens

What is the term for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

• Mixing Bowl
• Angel Food Cake
• Fish Tank
• Melting Pot

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.
• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.
• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above