Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization Comprehension

How many people died during the Irish potato blight?

• 1,000,000

• 500,000

• 2,000,000

• 800,000

What event was a peaceful rally in support of union workers and the eight-hour day that turned suddenly violent?

What was the goal of the populism party in the 1890s?

Why did farmers want to add silver to the Gold Standard to cause inflation?

What faith were most Polish and Irish immigrants?

• Protestant

• Lutheran

• Episcopal

• Catholic

1.     Which location was NOT a common location where more than two million children were sent to work in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Mills

• Railroads

• Factories

• Mines

Many of these new immigrants saw America as a “__________________________________________”.

• Land of Happiness

• Land of Chance

• A New Opportunity

• Land of Opportunity

  What plant disease caused a famine in Ireland which caused many Irish people to immigrate to the United States?

0s and 1850s, what was the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic movement known as?

What grew the most during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Cities

• Farms

• Rural Communities

• School Systems