Berti's Immigration Challenge

Which of the following is motivation for immigrant to LEAVE their country?

• There was a lot of food and safety in their country

• There was no wars or violence

• There were plenty of jobs

• Poverty, lacks of resources, war and violence in their country.

Name of the area of the immigrant ship where the 2nd and 3rd class immigrants traveled.

Economic opportunities, religious freedom, and political liberty, and better resources are all examples of...

• Push Factors
• Pull Factors
• Falling Factors
• Jump Factors

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

• Washington, D.C.
• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• Baltimore

Chinese immigrants made significant achievements doing what?

• Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
• Work in New York factories
• Contributions to the steel industry
• Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

In early 1900s America, immigrants made up a large portion of the population of big cities, such as New York and San Francisco. Which of the following best describes why immigrants in these cities established their own ethnic neighborhoods, such as New York's Little Italy and San Francisco's Chinatown?

• They did so in order to ensure that they were able to receive high wages and benefits for factory work.
• They did so in order to establish their own political parties that could influence both local and state government.
• They did so in order to continue practicing the traditions that they brought over from their home countries.
• They did so in order to build and open their own factories that could compete with others in the city.

 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

The small, crowded workplaces where workers suffered through long hours, low pay, hot and unsafe working conditions.

• neighborhood banks

• steerage

• sweatshops

• benevolent societies

Name of the cheap and poorly constructed apartments many immigrant families lived in.

What was the primary reason for immigrants to move to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• For vacation and tourism

• To escape political unrest and economic instability in their home countries

• To establish their own political parties

• Because they were forced to by their governments