Immigration and Urbanization

Political bosses and precinct captains were able to easily relate to immigrants because ____________________________________.

• Political bosses usually came from Eastern European Countries

• political bosses spoke the same language as immigrants and helped them get jobs

• political bosses paid off immigrants for their vote

• political bosses related easily to immigrants because they had once been immigrants

Election fraud was often used by political bosses to fraudulently ____________________.

• win elections

• earn money

• trick immigrants

• trick political cartoonists

___________________________ offered services to help immigrants learn skills so they could stop working in factories and obtain less dangerous higher paying jobs.

• Settlement houses

• Political machines

• City bosses

• Immigration stations

Where did Chinese immigrants enter the United States?

• Ellis Island on the West coast

• Ellis Island on the East coast

• Angel Island on the West coast

• Angel Island on the East coast

Competition for jobs on the West Coast and increased opinions of nativism lead to the _______________________________.

• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The National Immigration Limitation Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Asia Exclusion Act

Which of the following is a consequence of the forced assimilation of Native Americans?

• loss of language

• loss of identity

• loss of culture

• loss of political power

Immigration contributed to rapid ___________________ and cultural shifts during the late 1800s.

• decline

• poverty growth

• production rates

• urbanization

____________________ were interested in solving the problems immigrants faced when coming to the United States.

• Muckrakers

• Stalwarts

• Reformers

• Progressives