The New Immigration Wave

What demographic changes did industrialization contribute to in the United States during the late 1800s?

• A.

  Immigrant populations in cities grew significantly.

• B.

  Wages for workers in unskilled professions rose rapidly.

• C.

  People migrated to rural areas in large numbers.

• D.

  The West Coast became the country’s population center.

Political machines grew in power during the second half of the nineteenth century because they were able to motivate which vulnerable group to vote for their candidates?

• A.

  African Americans

• B.

  enfranchised women

• C.

  recent immigrants

• D.

  wealthy industrialists

What was true of the wave of European immigrants who came to the United States between 1880 and 1915?

• A.

  Most were from southern or eastern Europe, and they spoke English and practiced the same religion as most Americans.

• B.

  Most were from northern or western Europe, and they spoke English and practiced the same religion as most Americans.

• C.

  Most were from northern or western Europe, and they spoke different languages and practiced different religions from most Americans.

• D.

  Most were from southern or eastern Europe, and they spoke different languages and practiced different religions from most Americans.

How did European immigration to the United States during the late nineteenth century affect society?

• A.

  Growing immigrant populations in cities led to a decline in the pace of industrial development.

• B.

  Growing immigrant populations in rural areas led to housing shortages and poor living conditions.

• C.

  Growing immigrant populations in cities caused workers to resent the increased competition for jobs.

• D.

  Growing immigrant populations in rural areas caused shortages of necessary goods and services.

What was required of immigrants processed at Angel Island but not those processed at Ellis Island?

• A.

  proof of an offer of employment

• B.

  proof that family lived in the United States

• C.

  the payment of substantial fees

• D.

  a pledge to serve in the US armed forces

What is nativism, as it was expressed in the United States in the nineteenth century?

• A.

  a policy of protecting native citizens and their interests to the detriment of others

• B.

  a movement to return land taken by the United States to American Indian nations

• C.

  a policy of allowing only native born citizens to run for government office

• D.

  a movement by many American immigrants to return to their homelands

Look at the 1910 image of a child working in New Jersey and answer the question.

Images such as this increased public support for

• A.

  Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth philosophy.

• B.

  political machines that helped immigrants find work.

• C.

  the ideas contained in the theory of Social Darwinism.

• D.

  labor laws advocated for by progressive reformers.