Immigrants and Urban Life Quiz

Chinese Exclusion Act:

• Allowed more immigrants
• Banned freedom of speech
• Restricted working conditions
• Prevented people from immigrating to the U.S.

What are poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called?

• Steerage
• Tenement
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Mass Transit

Who gave the Statue of Liberty to America?

• England
• France
• Mexico
• Canada

Old immigrants were which of the following?

• arrived in the United States before the 1880s from northern Europe

• arrived in the United States starting after the 1880s from southern and eastern Europe

The main goal of Hull House was to

• provide jobs for wealthy women

• pass the Tenement House Act of 1901

• help poor immigrants

• oppose the Chinese Exclusion Act

Skyscrapers were built to resolve the issue of

• Plumbing and water purification systems

• Traffic and transportation

• Sanitation and trash pile up

• Overcrowded populations that ran out of building space

Mass transit is

• residential neighborhood outside of downtown areas

• leisure and cultural activities shared by many people

• giant retail shops

• public transportation designed to move many people

How did mass transit lead to the growth of suburbs?

• It allowed people to travel in large numbers

• People were paid to populate large cites

• Skyscrapers gave people more places to live

• Parking garages made it possible for a lot of people to travel to the city

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

• managed tenement apartments

• opened a settlement house

• published comic strips in their newspapers

• were reformers for women and children

Jane Addams started a _____________________________ in Chicago to help the poor.

• hospital

• assimilation program

• hotel

• settlement house