Chapter 12 Immigration Quiz

What does the word URBAN mean?

• farm country and small towns

• people who worked for hourly wages that required physical labor

• a word relating to cities bursting with people

• a tight living quarters next to the Mississippi River where a lot of immigrants lived

What were the Bohemian Flats?

• farm country and small towns

• people who worked for hourly wages that required physical labor

• a word relating to cities bursting with people

• a tight living quarters next to the Mississippi River where a lot of immigrants lived

What is a RURAL area?

• farm country, fields and small towns

• people who worked for hourly wages that required physical labor

• a word relating to cities bursting with people

• a tight living quarters next to the Mississippi River where a lot of immigrants lived

What was the working class?

• people who did a lot of homework

• a group of people that ALL worked in the same building

• people who worked for hourly wages in jobs that usually required physical labor

• people who received payments from the government to work from home

What industries brought immigrants to Minnesota?

• Lumber, Pizza, and fishing

• Flour Milling, Iron, and Lumber

• Iron, Wal-Mart, and Lumber

• Iron, Oat Meal, Flour

What happened to the population at the beginning of the 1900's?

What were three traditional jobs that women held in the 1900's?

• dressmaking, teaching and nursing

• clerk, factory worker, steamboat captain

• miner, teacher, operator

• government official, fur trader, nurse

What is a labor union?

• a place where people go to gamble

• a refusal to work in order to force and employer to agree to demands

• growth spurts of people wanting to work

• an organization that helps workers get better wages and working conditions

What is a strike in the work force?

• a place where people go to gamble

• a refusal to work in order to force and employer to agree to demands

• growth spurts of people wanting to work

• an organization that helps workers get better wages and working conditions

What countries did most immigrants come to Minnesota from? (More than one)

• Sweden

• Germany

• Russia

• Norway