Immigration and Urbanization Study Game

Tenements were found in -

• crowded city slums

• middle-class neighborhoods

• farming areas

• Europe, but not in the United States

Jane Addams founded Hull House to -

• increase the number of women protesting for suffrage

• help political bosses aid immigrants

• help solve the problems of immigration

• provide lodging for women who worked in textile mills

Why did political machines help immigrants?

• It was stated in city constitutions that political machines must help the urban poor.

• Political machines helped immigrants with jobs and housing in return for votes.

• Political machines consisted of wealthy women who felt it was their duty to help the urban poor.

• Political machines did not help immigrants; they often helped to deport them.

What would be the BEST title for this web?

• Reasons for the Development of Industry

• Reasons for the Growth of Cities

• Reasons for Imperialism

• Reasons for Increased Immigration

What would be the BEST title for the web?

• Efforts to Solve Immigration Problems

• Inventions Contributing to Industrial Growth

• Reasons Cities Developed

• Reasons for Increased Immigration

Which best describes city life for a typical immigrant in the late nineteenth century?

• A safe, clean, affordable housing

• A struggle to survive

• Low levels of crime

• Not a lot of competition for jobs

As more immigrants from Europe came to the United States during the 1800s, which problem resulted?

• Immigrants settled in huge numbers along the Pacific Coast.

• Farmlands became overcrowded with immigrants.

•  Immigrants settled in cities which resulted in overcrowding.

• Land for immigrant farmers was scarce and expensive.

Which is an example of the growing conflict between different cultural groups in America during the mid to late 1800s?

• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Increased tariffs on British imports

• The passage of the 18th Amendment

• The passage of the 19th Amendment

Immigrants new to the United States in the 1880s differed from those immigrants who came before 1850 because those of the 1880s -

• came to find better opportunities

• had different customs and languages

• had lived in northern and western Europe

• were from large, urban areas

Which movement formed because of Americans' fear of losing jobs to new immigrants?

• Racism

• Nativism

• Assimilation

• Progressivism