Immigration and Urbanization

What are some reasons why immigrants came to America during the Gilded Age? (Select all that apply)

• to find jobs

• to escape persecution

• to be able to vote

• to escape famine

What was Ellis Island?

• A settlement house for immigrants

• A court case that allowed segregation in public facilities

• A check-in-station for immigrants coming to America

• A theory that the rich are rich because they're better, and the poor are poor because they are worse

 

Which of the following is NOT 

Which of the following is NOT a challenge that immigrants faced when coming to America during the Gilded Age? a challenge that immigrants faced when coming to America during the Gilded Age?

• Discrimination

• New diseases

• Finding jobs

• Language barriers

What were tenement houses?

• Large public buildings designed for the rich

• Small, cramped apartments for poor people

• Community centers to help poor people

• Check-in-stations for immigrants coming to America

During the Great Migration, many African Americans moved from the _______ to __________.

• North to the South

• South to the North

• East to the West

• West to the East

Many immigrants who first came to American moved into what type of living space?

• Settlement Houses

• Community Centers

• Factory Houses

• Tenement Houses

Which of the following limited immigration?

• the Dawes Act

• The Pacific Railway Act

• The Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Inspection station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast

• Ellis Island

• Paris Island

• Angel Island

• All of the above

Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans

• Nationalism

• Nativism

• Nepotism 

• All of the above

Where did the majority of immigrants arrive?

• East Coast

• Florida

• California

• West Coast