Gilded Age Immigration

During the Gilded Age, New Immigrants came from where?

• Asia (China, Japan, Korea)

• Western Europe (Germany, Ireland, England)

• Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Serbia)

• Africa

Cultural neighborhoods within cities that immigrants gathered in (Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Greece)

• Tenements

• Nativism

• Enclaves

• Hull Houses

Many new immigrants were educated, spoke English and took high paying jobs in cities.

• True

• False

These unsafe and unclean buildings were created to be rented to as many immigrant/poor families as possible

• Enclaves

• Tenements

• Skyscrapers

• Suburbs

This island processed immigrants that came into the East Coast

• Ellis Island

• Johns Island

• Angel Island

• Martha's Island

This island processes immigrants that came in through the West Coast

• Ellis Island

• James Island

• Johns Island

• Angel Island

Who created the Hull House? What group was it created to help?

• Jane Addams;

  Women

• Boss Tweed;

  Immigrants

• President Cleveland; Tycoons

• Jane Addams;

  Immigrants

The political party with a Nativist platform that focused on upholding traditional American values (started as a secret society)

• The Whigs

• The Free Soil Party

• The Know Nothings

• Republicans

Feelings of fear or suspicions around immigrants because of their different ethnicities, religions, and cultural beliefs and practices.

• Sectionalism

• Nativism

• Graft

• Quotas

This law established the first limits (quotas) on immigration for a particular group of immigrants.

• The Eastern European Ban

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• Anti-Asian Immigration Act

• Nativism Act