Honors History: Chapter 18 Urbanization

How nineteenth-century city bosses and their machines retained control? 

• Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support

• Using police forces to protect organized labor

• Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations

• Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference

In 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act

• Dawes Act

• Mexican Reparation Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt.  For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Jacob Riis

• William M. Tweed

• Samuel Tilden

After a 7-10 day voyage in steerage, a European immigrant in the late 1890's would most likely be processed

• at Ellis Island

• at Angel Island

Which of the following is not a pull factor leading to increased immigration?

• availability of jobs

• famine and taxes

• religious and political freedom

• social class mobility

Where did "new immigrants" of the late 1800's primarily come from?

• Northern and Northwestern Europe

• China

• Russia

• Southern and Southeastern Europe

Why were businesses and factories opposed to immigration limits?

• immigrants provided a cheap source of labor

• many factory owners were immigrants

• most immigrants died or returned home anyways

• they were invested in the shipping industry

Dirty, cramped, and dangerous apartments in cities during the Gilded Age were known as

• trap houses.

• soddies.

• townhouses.

• tenements.

A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they...

• had a higher standard of living than most Americans

• competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers

• adapted easily to American culture

• were better educated than native-born Americans

Conditions that force people to leave their homeland.

• Shove factors

• Pull factors

• Push factors

• Pluck factors