Immigration and Urbanizatin

In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the

• Reconstruction of the South

• impact of industrialization

• passage of the Homestead Act

The "new" immigrants differed from the "old" immigrants in that the "new" immigrants were from

• eastern and southern Europe

• northern and western Europe

• Asia and South America

In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because

• farmland had become very scarce

• they came mainly from large cities in their home countries

• factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

Immigration increased rapidly between 1895 and 1905 because

•  Railroad construction created jobs for immigrants.

•  Industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants.

• World War I caused immigrants to flee Europe.

This government facility opened in 1892 to process immigrants in New York City.

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Castle Garden

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, prejudice against “new” immigrants increased mainly because these immigrants

• tried to replace American democracy with their own forms of governmen

• had job skills superior to those of most American workers

• were culturally very different from that of the majority of Americans

An increase in the number of factories in the mid-1800s led to

• urbanization

• isolationism

• progressivism

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” — Emma Lazarus. The purpose of this poem is

• to welcome immigrants to America

• to support limiting immigration

• to protest against segregation

The poem "The New Colossus" can be found where?

• the walls of the Lincoln Memorial

• the base of the Statue of Liberty

• above the door of the White House

During the early 1900s, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities

• on Great Plains farms

• in northern cities

• in the Pacific Northwest