Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age (6.8 & 6.9)

Which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa and the Americas between 1882 and 1900?

• Reduction of potential immigrant populations by widespread epidemics

• Immigration to less-settled areas of the world

• Restrictive congressional legislation

• Rapid expansion of the British Empire into the Southern Hemisphere

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

• They were primarily unskilled laborers.

• They were mainly female.

• They often formed ethnic communities.

• They were predominately from southern and eastern Europe.

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

• Global fluctuations in credit and stock markets

• Progressive Era reforms of social conditions in the United States

• The outbreak of global war

• The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

• Midwest and Northeast

• South and Northeast

• South and Midwest

• West and Midwest

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

• Asia

• middle-class backgrounds

• Latin America

• European farms and villages

Which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt?

• Know-Nothings

• Machine politicians

• Southern Democrats

• Settlement house workers

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the “new immigrants” of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

• Practiced different religions

• were willing to work for lower wages than were native-born workers

• Dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering.

• were not familiar with the United States political system

The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

• Utopian Socialism

• Social Darwinism

• Dialectical materialism

• Transcendentalism

Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women’s activism during which of the following earlier periods?

• The Protestant evangelism of the mid-1700s

• The decade leading up to the American Revolution

• The two decades following the American Revolution

• The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

Which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration in the 1840s and 1850s?

• Immigration from China was greater than immigration from central Europe in the 1840s and 1850s as compared to the period between 1865 and 1895.

• Immigration was a main source of agricultural labor in the Southern states during the 1840s and 1850s, but it was not between 1865 and 1895.

• More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s sought factory work than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.

• More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.