Immigration and Urbanization Review

What is immigration?

• People moving from on city to another

• People moving from the ghetto to a house

• People moving from a rural area to an urban area

• People move from one country and settle in another country

What are 3 reasons for the increase in immigration in the late 1880s?

• Better opportunities

• Climate change

• Religious freedom

• Unfair treatment by home government

Immigration

• stopped political corruption

• helped grow and develop cities

• was bad for the United States

• ended world hunger

True or False: Many immigrants were discriminated against when then arrived in the United States?

• True

• False

What two issues lead to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods?

• Urbanization

• Automobiles

• Industrialization

• Aeroplanes

Cities grew because of immigration and

• Rural farms

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Specialized Industries

• The transcontinental railroad

Americans moved from ______ to ______ areas in order to find better job opportunities.

• urban, rural

• rural, urban

The first settlement house, Hull House, was started by Jane Addams in which U.S. city?

• New York City

• Atlanta

• Chicago

• Boston

______ _______ gained power by attending to the needs of the new immigrants.

• City mayors

• Political machines

• Police commissioners

• Presidential candidates

Which group of immigrants faced racial discrimination?

• Native Americans

• Jewish

• Irish

• Italians