Immigrants & Urban Life Unit Review

How did immigration patterns change in the United States during the late 1800s?

• More immigrants came from Asia.

• More immigrants came from Africa.

• Fewer immigrants came from Europe.

• Fewer immigrants came from Mexico.

How did immigrants to the United States during the late 1800s adapt to their new life?

• They found low-paying jobs.

• They built tenement apartments.

• They set up rules for better sanitation.

• They established benevolent societies.

Some people in the United States were worried that __________would take their jobs because they were willing to work for low wages.

How did the population distribution of the United States change in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• More people moved to big cities.

• More people left the West Coast.

• Fewer people settled in the suburbs.

• Fewer people emigrated from Latin America.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, _________ were built in big cities so more people could live and work in city centers.

Comic strips were viewed as a form of advertising for newspapers in the 1900s.

• True

• False

People reserved open spaces in big cities in the late 1800s instead of constructing buildings everywhere.

• True

• False

World fairs helped people in rural areas have access to merchandise from department stores in the late 1800s.

• True

• False

Newspapers became more prevalent by 1900 because a new typesetting machine had been invented.

• True

• False

What was the main source of the problems that big cities faced in immigrant neighborhoods in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• There were few jobs available in factories.

• There were too many people living in a small area.

• There were too many laws that restricted landlords.

• There were few regulations on the education system.