Chapter 20 Test: Immigrants and Urban Life

What Year Was the Chinese Exclusion Act FIRST Enacted?

• 1882

• 1865

• 1900

• 1892

These places offered a wide selection of products, usually at lower prices than smaller shops.

• Mass Transit

• Mass Culture

• Walmart

• Department Stores

What is NOT a way that reformers tried to improve city life.

• Better Sanitation

• Safer Building Standards

• Clean Water

• Opened up Sweatshops

Which Was NOT a reason that U.S. Cities grew so large during this time period?

• Immigrants came over in large numbers

• People from rural areas moved to cities to find a job

• Cities were safer than rural areas

• Black Americans moved North to find work in Northern Cities

How was steel helpful in building taller buildings?

• It was super expensive

• It was very cheap and allowed buildings to be taller than ever

• Steel was invented by Thomas Edison and was not ready to use yet

• Steel was not important during this time period

What Were Poorly Built and Overcrowded Apartment Buildings Called?

• Hull House

• Addams House

• Rii's Houses

• Tenements

What was Jacob Riis known for?

• His photopgraphs of luxury life

• Owning The Largest Newspaper in America

• His photojournalism of tenement life, as seen in his book How the Other Half Lives

• Creating Central Park

Jane Addams founded what?

• Hull House in Chicago

• Knights of Labor Union

• Slums in New York City

• Central Park, in New York City

What was the name of the law that banned Chinese immigration to the United States?

• Nativist Act

• Chinese Exlcusion Act

• Immigration Act of 1917

• Pacific Immigration Act

Where was Ellis Island, and what was its purpose?

• San Francisco, immigrants from China were processed into the U.S. here

• El Paso, Texas, Mexican immigrants were processed into the U.S. here

• New York, immigrants from Europe were processed into the U.S. here

• New York, known for not processing any immigrants