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Gilded Age Immigration, Urbanization, Corruption, and Inequality

Authored by Tara Winters

History

11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This summary describes immigration trends between 1870 and 1916.

More than 25 million people migrated to the United States between 1870 and 1916. Immigration, along with natural increase, caused the U.S. population to grow dramatically, rising from about 40 million to about 100 million during this time period.

Why was the population boom at the turn of the twentieth century important to American industrialization?

It increased jobs in the fields of marketing and advertisement

It resulted in increased use of natural resources

It provided a large labor force and consumer market

It encouraged a variety of cultural influences in economic innovation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which Congressional action is it making reference?

The Web-Alien Land Law

The Gentlemen's Agreement

Restrictive Covenants

The Chinese Exclusion Act

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which group of people made up the majority of immigrants to America before 1870?

Scandinavian Catholics

South American Jews

Chinese Buddhists

European Protestants

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which statement describes a common pattern in the immigrant experience?

Immigrants saved their earnings in order to invest in stocks

Immigrants purchased land in plantation regions

Immigrants tended to be concentrated in ethnic neighborhoods

Immigrants desired work in professional careers

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is an excerpt from a poem entitled "The New Colossus", by Emma Lazarus.

Give me your tired, your poor

Your huddle masses yearning to breathe free

The wretched refuse of your teaming shores

Send there, the homeless, the tempest-toss to me.

This poem is reflective of what idea?

Immigrants were pulled to the U.S. with hopes of better lives

Quotas ensured that only well educated immigrants entered the country

Immigrants faced minimal challenges to starting their new lives

Public welfare and education programs helped immigrants to transition to life in America.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first reliable streetcars were powered by

animals

coal

gasoline

electricity

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Traditionally, immigrants had come to America for economic opportunity and

superior education

social equality

police protection

religious freedom

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