Urbanization, Industrialization and immigration US practice ques

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

What is a metaphor 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?

• They were looking for work on farms

• Factories created many job opportunities.

• They wanted to settle on the frontier

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

What is a tenement?

• A new form of transportation
• Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
• The end of immigration
• A revolutionary war in Africa

 Which factor contributed to the shifting of population from rural to urban areas from 1870-1900?

• Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act
• Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland
• Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the counttryside
•  Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and laborers to cities

Define a monopoly.

• A card game
• businesses that are owned by investors
• A company controls all or most of businesses in an industry.
• Poor families

What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?

• long hours, good pay
• Low wages, long hours, dangerous
• dangerous, long hours, good pay
• low wages, good hours. dangerous

Immigration push factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

 Immigration  pull factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

What was the most famous settlement house?

• Armstrong House

• Hull House

• York House

• Roosevelt House