Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization

What is the most important tool for labor unions?

• strike

• work longer hours

• child labor

• money

People who moved to the US after 1880 seeking economic opportunity or political or religious freedom were called

• old immigrants

• nativists

• new immigrants

• steerage

Where did the majority of the new immigrants settle?

• small towns

• rural areas

• suburbs

• big cities

The poorly built, overcrowded apartments many immigrants lived in were called

• steerage

• sweatshops

• tenements

• benevolent societies

The small, crowded workplaces where garment workers endured long hours and low pay were

• neighborhood banks

• steerage

• sweatshops

• benevolent societies

Americans who opposed increased immigration to the US were called

• imperialists

• industrialists

• old immigrants

• nativists

The Chinese Exclusion Act

• prohibited Chinese immigrants from leaving California to settle in other states

• prohibited Chinese people from immigrating to the US for 10 years

• prohibited Chinese people from working in steel mill

• prohibited Chinese people from immigrating to the US for 20 years

Most settled in neighborhoods in large cities

• Old immigrants

• New immigrants

Many entered the US through Ellis Island

• Old immigrants

• New immigrants

Which of these 2 immigrant groups helped build the transcontinental railroad?

• Italian & Russian

• Poles & Mexican

• Irish & Chinese

• Japanese & Italian