Lyra Chapter 5: An Urban Society

What City opened the first subway or underground railway?

• San Francisco

• Boston

• New York

• Chicago

Where is Ellis Island?

• New York City

• California

• Florida

Immigrants enter US. This entrance was for Europeans.

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Europeans immigrants did not come to US.

Asian immigrants entered US at the place.

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Asian immigrants did not come.

Which were two pull factors that drove many European immigrants to America in both the 1600s and the early 1800s?

• major famines and poverty

• available land and economic opportunity

• religious persecution and unfair treatment

• available jobs and lack of perceived political problems

Base your answer to the next question on the poem below and your knowledge of social studies.
… “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost [tossed] to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” -Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”
In this poem, the phrase “homeless, tempest-tost” refers to

• Soldiers
• Immigrants
• Survivors of a shipwreck
• Unemployed workers

In the late 1800s, the increase in the number of tenement buildings resulted directly from the

• Changing role of women in the home
  
• Increased federal aid for housing
  
• Need for health care facilities
  
• Rapid growth of urban populations
  

Match the following

• assimilate

• a type of residence that is often run down and crowded

• ragtime

• to become part of a larger culture

• emigrate

• a type of journalism based on sensational stories

• yellow journalism

• a type of music characterized by syncopation in the melody came from jazz

• tenement

• to leave one's homeland to live somewhere else

They believed children should learn by doing and lead a new philosophy or set or ideas called progressive education

• John Dewey

• Jane Addams

• Elisha Otis

True or False: The 1862 Morrill Act gave states land they could sell and states used money to start land grant colleges

• True

• False