Unit 03 Immigration and Urbanization

Organize these options into Push or Pull factors

Groups:

(a) Push

,

(b) Pull

• • Lack of educational opportunities

• Political Stability

• Freedom of Speech

• Safety and Security

• Access to Healthcare

• Poverty

• • Natural disasters

• Social Equality

• Starvation (Famine)

• Economic Opportunities

• Political Oppression

• Work and Educational Opportunities

• Freedom of Religion

• War, Violence, Genocide

• Lack of work/jobs

U.S. cities grew quickly during the early 1800s because:

• nativists called for more Americans to move to cities

• recent immigrants often had to live in cities

• poor transportation made it difficult to leave cities

• education became freely available in cities

What is immigration?

• People moving from on city to another

• People moving from the ghetto to a house

• People moving from a rural area to an urban area

• People move from one country and settle in another country

What are 3 reasons for the increase in immigration in the late 1880s?

• Better opportunities

• Climate change

• Religious freedom

• Unfair treatment by home government

Cities grew because of immigration and

• Rural farms

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Specialized Industries

• The transcontinental railroad

Americans moved from ______ to ______ areas in order to find better job opportunities.

• urban, rural

• rural, urban

______ _______ gained power by attending to the needs of the new immigrants.

• City mayors

• Political machines

• Police commissioners

• Presidential candidates

The political cartoon above most directly reflects which of the following choices?

• A. The Chinese immigrants were welcomed to America.

• B. All immigrants were barred from America.

• C. Chinese immigrants were excluded from entering the United States.

• D. Chinese and Irish immigrants were welcomed as railroad laborers.

If Pauline Newman was escaping Lithuania because of religious persecution, that would be considered which of the following?

• A. Scarcity

• B. Pull factor

• C. Famine

• D. Push factor

Which of the following best describes tenements in the late 1800's?

• 1. Crowded but clean

• 1. Small houses with open spaces

• 1. Dirty, crowded and unhealthy

• 1. Skyscrapers with elevators heat and water