Urban America-Immigration and Urbanization ( Lesson 4.1-4.2)

By the 1890s more than half of all immigrants in the US were ______.

• Japanese

• Chinese

• Eastern and Southern Europeans

• European and Russian Jews

Many immigrants came to the US to escape______.

• Europe's class system

• the social ladder

• Europe's labor laws

• urban political machines

Immigrants arriving on the East Coast passed through what location?

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Staten Island

• Long Island

What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the US from becoming citizens?

• Workingmen's Act

• Chinese Immigration Act

• Taiping Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

At the end of the nineteenth century, immigrants made up a significant percentage of country's largest ____.

• plantations

• farms

• cities

• suburbs

Why did many rural Americans move to big cities?

• better-paying jobs

• political power

• high society

• shorter work hours

Multifamily apartment buildings

• suburbs

• skyscrapers

• tenements

• work houses

Boston and New York City built the first ______?

• tunnels

• trolley cars

• overpasses

• subway systems

America's industrialization increased the _______.

• federal government

• political machine

• middle class

• agricultural system

New York City's most powerful party boss was _____.

• Thomas Pendergast

• George Plunkitt

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Zalmen Yoffeh