VUS.8 - Immigration, Industrialization, Jim Crow

In which location are the immigrants in the image most likely gathered to enter the United States?

• San Diego, California

• Ellis Island, New York

• Pensacola, Florida

• New Orleans, Louisiana

For most immigrant groups, free land was a —

• reward

• push factor

• pull factor

• burden

Which is an example of a push factor?

• Many countries, including the United States, allowed people to obtain work visas to get jobs in another country.

• During WWII, several European countries had authoritarian governments that oppressed the people, so they fled.

• The Great Migration of the 1930s had African Americans moving to the North and Midwest for better opportunities.

• The Homestead Act of 1893 provided large amounts of free land on the prairie for anyone, including immigrants.

What purpose did the telegraph serve for people in the United States?

• It replaced the mail delivery system known as the Pony Express.

• It quickened delivery of handwritten mail to people who lived long distances from each other.

• It provided a quicker means of transporting typed messages from one location to another.

• It enhanced vocalized communication through a network of wires.

Why were industrial leaders like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller both 'Captains of Industry' and 'Robber Barons'?

• They worked closely with their competitors but charged consumers high prices.

• They supported workplace reform but drove their competitors out of business.

• They provided high-paying jobs but overpriced their products and monopolized markets.

• They donated large sums to charity but exploited labor in their industries.

During the mid-1800s, what was one reason some citizens of the United States were against immigration?

• Immigrants refused to become United States citizens.

• Immigrants accepted jobs that American citizens wanted.

• Immigrants did not understand the English language.

• Immigrants had more money than American citizens.

Look at the photograph.

• Reconstruction

• Freeman's Bureau legislation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Labor Relations' Act

How did Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) stay within the guidelines of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• It determined that segregation was legal so long as the facilities were "equal" as mandated by the Fourteenth Amendment.

• It abolished segregation in public facilities.

• It enforced equal rights for all races in all states.

• It declared segregation unconstitutional.

What law offered free land in the west to anyone who would sign on and cultivate the land for a minimum of five years?

• Homestead Act

• Tenant Farming Act

• Headright Act

• Freedman's Act

What technology helped open the West for occupation?

• Steam engine

• Telegraph

• Railroad

• Mining