Chapter 20: Immigrants and Urban Life-TEST

What are poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called?

• Steerage
• Tenement
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Mass Transit

Old immigrants were which of the following?

• arrived in the United States before the 1880s from northern Europe

• arrived in the United States starting after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

• Immigrants who entered America looking for old jobs like farming, and sewing.

• arrived in America from Egypt and other African nations as slaves.

To adjust to a new life immigrants

• didn't learn to speak English and spoke their native language

• moved into neighborhoods with people from different countries

• moved into neighborhoods with others from the same country

• wanted to go back to their home countries

Ellis and Angel Island were both

• locations of settlement houses

• immigration processing centers

• centers of shipping and industry

• amusement parks

The main goal of Hull House was to

• provide jobs for wealthy women

• pass the Tenement House Act of 1901

• help poor immigrants

• oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act

Anti-immigrant feeling resulted in

• benevolent societies

• the Chinese Exclusion Act

• tenements

• the Tenement House Act

Hot stuffy workshops in which workers prepare materials for low wages in neighborhoods were

• factories

• sweatshops

• tenements

• mass transit

Skyscrapers were built to resolve the issue of

• Plumbing and water purification systems

• Traffic and transportation

• Sanitation and trash pile up

• Overcrowded populations that ran out of building space

Mass transit is

• residential neighborhood outside of downtown areas

• leisure and cultural activities shared by many people

• giant retail shops

• public transportation designed to move many people

Mass transit networks made the suburbs possible, suburbs are

• residential neighborhood outside of downtown areas

• neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities

• the most famous settlement house

• area below a ship's deck where steering mechanisms were located