Final Review Unit I: Industry, Immigration, and Progressives

Who did the US want to fill the need for cheap labor during the late 1800s?

• Immigrants from foreign countries

• Native Americans from the south

• Political Bosses

• Educated Upper Class Citizens

Where did most immigrants live? 

• Most lived in farming communities
• Most lived in the suburbs
• Most lived in big cities
• Most lived around lakes

 Which factor contributed to the shifting of population from rural to urban areas from 1870-1900?

• Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act
• Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland
• Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the counttryside
•  Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and laborers to cities

New immigrants were from

• Latin America
• Northern and Western Europe
• China and Germany
• Southern and Eastern Europe

What was a consequence of the Industrial Revolution?

• More people moved to the cities to work in factories

• More people became farmers

• Immigrants were treated equally because there was a work shortage

• There were less slaves because plantations weren't profitable anymore

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.
• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.
• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

Which of the following best describes Industrial Revolution?

• A change from products made by hand to products made by machines in factories

• An industry of revolving around the country

• People moving from all around the world to look for gold in California

• a place in which everything is perfect

A shift in immigration during the late 1800s (1880-1900) was

• More immigrants arrived from Africa

• More immigrants arrived from Eastern and Southern Europe

• More immigrants arrived from Western Europe

• Immigrants stopped coming from Western Europe altogether

The Industrial Revolution was ...

• a war fought between Britain and U.S.
• When people worked more on farms than factories 
• time of inventing and industry 
• started in the U.S. and moved into Britain 

How did people's lives change because of the Industrial Revolution? 

• People bought more handmade goods than before 
• people worked mostly on farms 
• people bought factory made items and worked outside the home
• people made a lot of money making homemade items