Module 21: Immigrants and Urban Life

Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island
• Washington D.C.

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.
• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

Why did immigrants in cities establish their own separate neighborhoods, such as New York's Little Italy and San Francisco's Chinatown?

• in order to build and open their own factories
• in order to continue practicing the traditions that they brought over from their home countries.
• in order to establish their own political parties

In general, why did most people immigrate to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th Century?

• Escape difficult conditions
• A better life
• All of the above

What group of immigrants were arriving in large numbers on the West Coast in the middle to late 1800's?

• Chinese
• Greek
• Irish

Which term is the name of a restriction on immigration passed by Congress?

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Nativism Act of 1902
• All of the Above

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were

• Benevolent Societies
• tenement buildings
• settlement houses

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started the _____ in Chicago in 1889.

• School
• Hospital
• Hull House

These were places in big cities that helped immigrants adjust to their new lives in America.

• tenements
• settlement houses
• factories

The political cartoon shows which of the following?

• The Chinese immigrants were welcomed to America.
• All immigrants were banned from America.
• Chinese immigrants were banned from entering the United States.