Industry and Immigration

The ___________ was an important invention in communications that made it easier for people to talk to each other over wires.

Which of the following explains why some European immigrants came to the United States?

• Many immigrants wanted to work in factories in the US and they knew that there was no discrimination against immigrants there.

• Many were farmers in Europe. Good farmland was scarce there. There was abundant, rich farmland in the US.

• Most European immigrants went to California to try to become rich by mining gold.

• Most European immigrants were members of the Mormon religion. They were fleeing persecution.

How many major "waves", or periods, of immigration did the United States experience after the Civil War?

• five

• two

• one

• three

Urbanization created crowded, sometimes dirty cities. Assembly line jobs could be repetitive and boring. Steel production sometimes polluted the air and water. These are examples of

• the costs of rapid growth

• the benefits of rapid growth

• mass production

• resistance to immigration

When more Americans could afford the ______________ and _____, the use of the inventions grew quickly.

Someone who buys or uses goods and services

• entrepreneur

• assembler

• consumer

• inventer

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the

• telephone

• cell phone

• telegraph

• camera

Which answer choice gives an example of a benefit and a cost of industrial growth?

• By 1920, a majority of Americans lived in urban areas.

• Steel production in Pittsburgh, PA created pollution.

• The car made it possible to travel long distances faster than ever before.

• Many factories opened in cities and provided jobs to thousands of immigrants. But many of the immigrants lived in crowded, unclean tenements.

Who was the famous Danish immigrant who photographed and wrote about the terrible conditions of immigrants in the tenements of New York City?

• Cyrus McCormick

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jacob Riis

• Thomas Edison

The growth of cities is called _____________________.