Immigration and Urbanization

A period of time when products go from home-made to machine made in factories.

• agricutlure

• industrialization

• mathamatics

• environmentalism

What is the rapid growth of cities called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

Why were railroads so important during this time?

• they moved goods more quickly and less expensively over greater distances
• they were fun to ride on to go visit family in other states
• people could ride on railroads to get to their jobs in another city

completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to California

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Interstate Highway
• Route 66
• Henry Ford's Model T

Which was NOT a reason for immigration to the U.S. in the 1880s (i.e. Gilded Age)?

• Lots of jobs
• Escaping persecution
• Good working conditions
• Escaping poverty

What was Ellis Island?

• An amusement park

• A vacation spot

• An immigration center in New York

• The first capital of the United States

Which is a reason people came to America?

• Baseball
• Colleges
• Job opportunities
• Vacation

War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......

• Pull Factors
• Push Factors
• Jump Factors
• Falling Factors

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political and social equality are all examples of...

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Falling Factors
• Jump Factors

Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act did what?

• closed America to Chinese immigrants

• welcomed more Chinese immigrants to America to perform hard work
• allowed Chinese immigrants, but only under a very strict set of rules
• closed America to Chinese immigrants for three years then allowed a few at a time