Chapter 9: Lesson 4-5-6 Review

What does this picture tell?

• The United States was experiencing a population shift from urban to rural areas.
• City planners provided immigrants adequate housing during the Gilded Age.
• The men pictured were likely "middle class."
• Overcrowding in tenements was a social issue related to urbanization.

Which of the following is an example of a push factor?

• religious tolerance
• jobs and other economic opportunities
• falling crop prices for farmers
• family members who have emigrated

What was NOT required when an immigrant passed through Ellis Island?

• Legal Status
• Medical Exam
• Documentation of Country of Origin
• Job Skill

The men standing on a dock facing the man coming onshore represent

• Anti-immigrant organizations
• Immigrants
• Business leaders
• The federal government

How did immigrants of the late 1800s compare to immigrants who had come to the United States earlier?

• New Immigrants were more likely to settle in rural areas.
• New Immigrants were skilled laborers who contributed more to the economy than Old Immigrants.
• New Immigrants entered with limited wealth, while Old Immigrants were often poor and uneducated.
• New immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe while earlier immigrants had come from northern and western Europe

The vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast passed through a processing center located where?

• Angel Island
• Boston
• Ellis Island
• Philadelphia

What law prevented Chinese from immigrating to the United States?

• Workingmen's Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Taiping Act
• Asian Act of 1900

Many urban working-class families lived in multifamily apartment buildings that were often rundown, called

• Tenements.
• Suburbs.
• Skyscrapers.
• Work Houses.

Wealthy and middle class families were most often found living in

• Suburbs.
• Tenement housing.
• Ghettoes.
• Rural areas/farms.

Chinese immigrants primarily settled

• in Eastern cities, including New York and Boston.
• throughout the Midwest in cities like Chicago and St. Louis.
• primarily scattered throughout the Rocky Mountains.
• along the West Coast in cities that included San Francisco.