forced immigrants to live in rural areas

encourage immigrants to keep their own culturally customs and beliefs

convert immigrants to Protestantism

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in these charts?

Immigration to the U.S. provided a steady source of laborers for a rapidly growing manufacturing sector.

Industrialization in the U.S. coincided with a decrease in immigration to the country.

The manufacturing sector provided only a small number of jobs during Industrialization.

Immigrant women did not participate in manufacturing in the U.S. because their cultures forbid them from working.

According to this poem, what factors pushed immigrants to come to the United States?

a need to escape poverty, oppression and war in their countries of origin

a desire to live with their family members who were already settled there

a desire to see the natural beauty of the United States

to make their fortunes as businessmen in the U.S.’s booming economy

Use the source below to answer the question. “Neither the individual nor the race is improved by alms giving [donations]. Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance… But the amount which can be wisely given by the individual for individuals is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances connected with each. He is the only true reformer who is as careful and as anxious not to aid the unworthy as he is to aid the worthy, and, perhaps, even more so, for in alms giving more injury is probably done by rewarding wickedness than by dismissing virtue… The rich man …[knows] that the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise-free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind; works of art, certain to give pleasure and improve the public taste; and public institutions of various kinds, which will improve the general condition of the people; in this manner returning their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good.” SOURCE: Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, article written and published in 1889. Which of the following ideas is most directly expressed by Carnegie in this passage?

The wealthy have a responsibility to provide support to the poor in a way that will have lasting effects

Based on ideas of “survival of the fittest,” no assistance should be given to the poor

Charity is a sin and anyone providing this support is going against the will of God

All impoverished people are deserving of monetary handouts from the wealthy

“The place smelled horrible. All those people forced to live together in such a confined place. Why, they were practically sleeping on top of one another. It was two whole families from Ireland, plus a couple of young men that weren’t related to either one. Each one of ‘em – women and children included – work in the factories by day and return to that mouse hole to eat and sleep.” The above quote is MOST likely talking about what?

aftermath of an industrial accident

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

______ invented the ______, a car that was created on the assembly line and inexpensive enough for regular Americans to buy.

Alexander Graham Bell, Rolls Royce

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were know as robber barons because:

they were like nobility, but they trampled on people to get rich.

they robbed trains to get rich.

they made their fortune by working through the night.

What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?

Factories could extend working hours

Machines were able to be more efficient

Products were created on the assembly line

Businesses hired more skilled workers

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Why was the period after Reconstruction known as the “Gilded Age” in America?

Currency debates were the biggest issue in American politics

There was much economic growth but were many issues under the surface

All Americans regardless of class and occupation saw significant improvements in their standard of living

Women and African Americans joined together in their struggles against inequality

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor sought to ___________.

Overthrow capitalism and install Soviet Communism.

Increase production efficiency through the use of scientific management practices.

Organize workers to bargain and strike collectively for increased wages, better working conditions, decreased hours..

Limit the movement of Chinese Americans into farm jobs in the South.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

How did U.S. society respond to the development of the assembly line?

People stopped purchasing as many automobiles.

Businesses adopted these faster production methods and grew exponentially.

The American economy shrank due to a glut of consumer goods.

American laborers enjoyed a more relaxed pace of work.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

What effect did the practice of the assembly line have on industrial workers in the United States?

It gave laborers a better sense of purpose in their work

It led to the need for more workers to accomplish the same work

It reduced work to repetitive tasks easily performed by machines

It created more professionalism among the industrial workers

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Which statement about immigration to the United States during the 19th century is most valid?

Organized labor supported unlimited immigration.

Most immigrants to the United States were illegal aliens.

Industrial growth led to a demand for cheap immigrant labor.

Few immigrants came from Eastern Europe

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 2 pts

Anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress included the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. What was the impact of this act?

It prohibited Chinese immigrants from settling east of the Rocky Mountains, but the west coast was open to immigration and settlement.

It excluded native born Chinese from the legal protections of due process under the law.

It prevented Chinese immigrants from legally coming to the United States, and was not repealed until 1943.

It declared that all Chinese citizens in the United States had to move back to their country of origin.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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Most European immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

Ellis Island

Angel Island

Washington, D.C.

Baltimore

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Urbanization and Immigration

Why was the period after Reconstruction known as the “Gilded Age” in America?

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor sought to ___________.

How did U.S. society respond to the development of the assembly line?

What effect did the practice of the assembly line have on industrial workers in the United States?

Which statement about immigration to the United States during the 19th century is most valid?

Anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress included the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. What was the impact of this act?

Most European immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

Nativists wanted to

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in these charts?

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