Immigration and Industrialization 1880s-1910

How did laissez-faire government contribute to the Second Industrial Revolution?

• It increased labor costs in the factories and industry.

• It decreased crop production by using mechanization.

• It left businesses unregulated by the federal government.

• It introduced the system of capitalism, private control of business and industry.

Which group of immigrants is described by the following:

Push Factors: severe religious and political persecution in Eastern Europe and Russia

Pull Factors: jobs and economic opportunities, religious freedom to open their synagogues and openly practice their religion

• Germans

• Irish

• Chinese

• Jewish Immigrants

“We are going to a great country,” [I said,] “where a great people will look at us with creative eyes, making the beautiful out of the ugly, the big and generous out of the little and mean, the headstone out of the rock that the builders rejected.” —Stephen Graham, With Poor Immigrants to America

Which statement is best supported by the excerpt?

• Immigrants expected to find a better life in the United States.

• Immigrants sometimes faced prejudice and discrimination in the United States.

• Immigrants came to the United States to escape poverty, religious persecution, and political unrest.

• Immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s were often poor with limited skills

What law limited Chinese immigration as a result of the competition between American and Chinese workers for jobs?

• The Asian Immigration Agreement of 1882

• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• The Asian American Workforce Act 1882

What is the pull factor that contributed to urbanization?

• economic opportunities in factories

• more land for farming

• religious persecution

• political unrest

What was one consequence (result) of the data shown in the chart?

• growth in the number of skilled workers in the United States

• persistence of nativism and anti-immigrant prejudice and violence

• legal segregation of cities according to people’s ethnic and religious affiliations

• increase in the number and type of social services provided by the government

The group that actively campaigned against immigrant workers because they feared the competition for jobs were known as ___.

• Americanists

• Opportunists

• Industrialists

• Nativists

Which group of immigrants is described by the following:

Push Factors: poor farming conditions, political unrest in their home country

Pull Factors: jobs and economic opportunities as unskilled labor in the mines and railroads

Characteristics: hardworking, heavily discriminated against- laws banning their immigration and citizenship were passed, denied citizenship

• Germans

• Irish

• Chinese

• Jewish Immigrants

Which group of immigrants is described by the following:

Push Factors: failed democratic revolution

Pull Factors: jobs and economic opportunities as skilled craftsmen, doctors, lawyers, factory supervisors

Characteristics: educated, came to the USA with money to buy farms in the Midwest or start businesses. Started the idea of Kindergarten in the USA.

• Germans

• Irish

• Chinese

• Jewish Immigrants

TRUE OR FALSE: Urbanization IMPROVED the quality of life in cities.

• True- with more people came more opportunities.

• False-it worsened the quality of life because it contributed to sanitation issues, overcrowding and pollution.

• Neither of these- Urbanization has to do with machines and factory work.