Immigration & Urbanization Review

Ellis Island is located off the coast of what city?

• New York City

• San Francisco

• Chicago

• Paris

A building that had another use (often a single-family home) that was turned into many small, cramped apartments is ______.

• Settlement House

• Tenement

• Political Machine

• Ellis Island

A group of leaders who helped immigrants in order to gain power is a _______.

• Settlement House

• Political Party

• Political Machine

• Anti-Federalists

A community center run mostly by middle-class women that provided various services to the poor and to immigrants was a _____.

• Political Machine

• Tenement

• Settlement House

• Hospital

What word means the process of adjusting and changing to a new country's culture and language?

• settlement

• immigration

• segregation

• assimilation

Which one of these choices was NOT a push factor for people living in rural areas that moved to urban areas?

• factory jobs

• increased use of inventions

• lack of new farming jobs

• farming jobs being cut

Who founded Hull House?

• Louisa May Alcott

• Jane Addams

• Jane Foster

• Carol Danvers

Who was the head of the New York City political machine, known as Tammany Hall?

• Boss Nass

• Boss Johnson

• Boss Tweed

• Boss Scott

True or false: "Escape from oppressive governments" is one of the main reasons for increased immigration after the Civil War.

• True

• False

True or false: immigrants could practice any religion they wanted to in the United States and no one discriminated against them.

• True

• False