Chapter 15: Immigrants and Urbanization 1877-1914

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• d. nativism
• a. Ellis Island
• b. melting pot
• c. Angel Island
• e. Chinese Exclusion Act

Which term refers to an agreement that limited the immigration of unskilled workers to the United States in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order?

• f. Gentlemen's Agreement
• a. Ellis Island
• b. melting pot
• c. Angel Island
• d. nativism

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

• e. Chinese Exclusion Act
• a. Ellis Island
• b. melting pot
• c. Angel Island
• d. nativism

Through which place did immigrants arriving on the East Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States?

• a. Ellis Island
• b. melting pot
• c. Angel Island
• d. nativism
• e. Chinese Exclusion Act

Which term refers to the mixture of diverse cultures whose people blended together by abandoning their native language and customs?

• b. melting pot
• a. Ellis Island
• c. Angel Island
• d. nativism
• e. Chinese Exclusion Act

Urbanization is a term that describes the growth of farming regions.

• T
• F

The Americanization movement was designed to assimilate diverse people into the dominant culture

• T
• F

Through which place did immigrants arriving on the West Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States?

• c. Angel Island
• a. Ellis Island
• b. melting pot
• d. nativism
• e. Chinese Exclusion Act

Many city dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary, settlement houses

• T
• F

Tenements were community centers that provided assistance to the urban poor

• T
• F