What is a tenement building?

• A luxurious apartment complex

• cramped, poorly lit apartment buildings that lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation

• A type of suburban house sold to the middle class in the late 1800s

• A government building often located in downtown areas and used to hold multiple government offices

What are suburbs?

• Areas surrounding the urban, industrial city which attracted a growing middle and upper classes

• Downtown areas of a city that are dominated by tenement buildings

• Rural farmlands

• Industrial zones in cities that included factories and the railroads that served them

Who are immigrants?

• People who move within the same country

• People who left their original homeland and came to the US

• Tourists visiting a new country

• People who travel for business

What is a ghetto?

• A luxurious neighborhood located in the central area of a city

• City neighborhoods where immigrants of the same nationality lived

• A type of shopping district often located in the suburbs

• A rural community of the Great Plains

What does "assimilate" mean in the context of immigration?

• To maintain one's original culture

• To adopt American culture

• To travel frequently

• To isolate from society

What is the "melting pot" concept?

• Belief that because of assimilation, our citizens would all be the same - American

• A cooking technique used in specific forms of French cooking

• A type of cultural festival held in the Southwestern portion of the USA

• A geographical feature involving volcanic mountains

What was the Great Migration?

• Movement of people from Europe to America

• The movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North

• Migration of animals across continents

• A historical trade route in Asia connecting China with the Mediterranean Sea

What is Harlem?

• A famous shopping district in Philadelphia

• Area of New York City where many African Americans settled during the Great Migrations

• A popular tourist destination in California

• A financial hub in Oklahoma where many African Americans invested money in businesses

What is urbanization?

• Movement of people from cities to rural areas

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• Development of rural areas

• Decline of city populations

What is immigration?

• Moving to and settling permanently in a country that is not where you were born

• Staying for the length of one's life in one's hometown

• Traveling for leisure for a short period

• Commuting to work daily and weekly