Unit 3 - Day 3 (Immigration/Urbanization) Pre-Assessment

Which of the following was a MAIN reason the Chinese Exclusion Act was supported at both state and national levels?

• The United States government wanted to retaliate against Chinese attacks on the American Navy.

• Leaders wanted to stop Chinese religious influence in America.

• Political and economic leaders wanted to reduce competition from Chinese laborers.

• West Coast leaders wanted to reduce the amount of opium being smuggled into the United States.

The rapid growth of big cities during the Gilded Age was known as:

• Urbanization

• Ruralization

• Factory work

• Minimum wage

The NEW immigrants who came to the United States between1800 and 1880 were mainly from

• Russia

• Northern and Western Europe

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Japan and China

The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized cities to seek economic opportunities is called the -

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Civil Right Movement

• Gold Rush

Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• Treaty of Adams-Onis 
• Treaty of Ghent
• Treaty of Paris

Lack of jobs, poverty, famine, war, and persecution are all examples of:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

Economic opportunities (jobs), religious freedom, improved living conditions are all:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

Which of the following, were results of the Red Scare?

• 1000s were arrested.

• 600 were deported.

• Support to restrict immigration grew.

• Less support for strikes and unions.

A literacy test means that freedmen had to take and pass a reading test before they can vote

• False

• True

Which best describes the living conditions of most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution? 

• Most immigrants lived in rural areas with few other people around
• Most immigrants lived in cities in extremely crowded buildings
• Most immigrants lived in single-family homes
• Most immigrants lived in homeless shelters year-round