#2 - The Gilded Age - Final Review

We have been learning about the:

• Progressive Era.
• Gilded Age.
• Roaring Twenties.
• Nifty Nineties.

Most immigrants to the U.S. during this time period came from:

• Asia.
• Germany.
• Europe.
• South/ Central America.

Early in the Gilded Age immigrants came mostly from western & northern Europe, but later:

• they came from only northern Europe.
• they stopped coming from Europe.
• they only came from Russia.
• they came more from southern & eastern Europe.

All of the following are reasons immigrants to the U.S. left their home countries except:

• civil service jobs.
• competition for farmland.
• famine.
• religious persecution.

Many Chinese immigrants got jobs in the U.S. as:

• farmers in the Midwest.
• railroad workers.
• restaurant workers in New York.
• all of the other answers are correct.

Many Mexican immigrants came to the U.S. to:

• work on the railroads.
• work in the gold mines.
• farm newly irrigated land in the Southwest.
• all of the other answers are correct.

Although immigrants moved to many places in the U.S., most moved:

• to the West Coast.
• to Southern farms.
• to East Coast cities.
• to Midwest cities.

Immigrants often:

• moved into neighborhoods near people of their culture.
• built churches and stores like they had in their previous countries.
• printed newspapers in their native languages.
• all of the other answers are correct.

Nativism grew in the U.S. as a result of:

• competition for jobs, land, and housing.
• settlement houses.
• the Social Gospel movement.
• all of the other answers are correct.

As a result of growing nativism in the U.S.:

• fires became a problem in big cities.
• new laws were passed restricting immigration.
• bribery and fraud increased in politics.
• all of the other answers are correct.