Social Studies Chapter 7

Why did many immigrants want to move to the United States?

• to live in a land with no factories
• to live in a land with many opportunities
• to live in a land with streets paved in gold
• to live in a land with no slums

Read this paragraph from your textbook to answer the question. What is the best summary of this paragraph?

• Immigrants make the best workers.
• Immigration should be permitted for everyone.
• The demands from World War I made it important to find new workers.
• Most workers find it dangerous to work with weapons.

What made skyscrapers possible?

• steel and elevators
• suspension bridges and telephones
• light bulbs and air conditioners
• automobiles and cameras

What did President Franklin Roosevelt propose to help the economy?

• creating “forever wild” lands
• recycling
• the Harlem Renaissance
• the New Deal

What was the Great Depression?

• a period of high unemployment in American history
• the time of tension with communist countries
• the period when many African Americans left the South
• a period of economic growth

Who developed a hand-held camera?

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Lewis Latimer
• George Eastman

On what side did the United States fight in World War II?

• Axis Powers
• Allies
• Central Powers
• no side

What helped immigrants get used to life in America?

• tenements
• skyscrapers
• sweatshops
• settlement houses

Which of these is an example of a suburb?

• “forever wild” land
• Levittown, New York
• sweatshop
• St. Lawrence Seaway

What led to the government regulation of businesses?

• World War I
• the Great Migration
• the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
• the Harlem Renaissance