Urbanization and Immigration

Based on the information in this graph, why did immigration increase rapidly between 1895 and 1905?

• Railroad construction created jobs for immigrants.

• Cheap land prices in the West attracted immigrant farmers.

• Industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants.

• World War I caused immigrants to flee Europe.

The movement of people from rural areas to urban cities was is called

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Reconstruction

The phrase "New Immigration" mostly describes people who came to the United States from...

• Asia

• Africa

• Mexico

• Southern and Eastern Europe

Which is NOT a reason that people left their homelands to come to the US in the late 19th century

• Forced military service

• overpopulation

• food surpluses

• Religious persecution

A reason for wanting to leave you country or origin is call a

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

"Little Italy" and "Chinatown" are examples of

• Ghettos

• Tenements

• Ethnic cities

• Islands

Most immigrants who came to America settled in large cities because

• cities protected immigrants

• that is where jobs and affordable housing was available

• no farmland was left

• Life was easier for them

Prejudice against "New" immigrants increased because they

• Had superior job skills than most of the American workers

• Formed their own labor unions and received higher wages

• Tried to change the American political system

• came from different cultural backgrounds than most Americans

Which area on the map of the United States had the greatest urban population at the start of the Twentieth Century?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Identify “pull” factors that brought immigrant groups to the U.S.

• More Freedom, jobs, could own land, free education

• Children could work, the diversity of food they could buy, ghettos

• Famine, lack of freedom and persecution

• Nicer weather