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WorksheetsImmigrants and Urban Life Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 38mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings called?
a)
Steerage
b)
Tenement
c)
Chinese Exclusion Act
d)
Mass Transit
2.
What was Ellis Island?
a)
An amusement park
b)
A prison center
c)
An immigration center in New York
d)
The first capital of the United States
3.
Which is NOT a reason people left their homelands?
a)
Famine
b)
Poverty
c)
War
d)
Weather
4.
Who gave the Statue of Liberty to America?
a)
England
b)
France
c)
Mexico
d)
Canada
5.
What is the lower part of a ship's deck where steering mechanisms are located called?
a)
Sweatshop
b)
Mass Culture
c)
Steerage
d)
Suburb
6.
The purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
a)
increase the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the US
b)
ban Chinese immigrants into the US.
7.
A sweatshop is a
a)
Name for workshops because of long hours and hot, unhealthy working condition
b)
An eating place
c)
A hotel
d)
A department store
8.
Area on Ellis Island where families were often reunited
a)
Kissing Post
b)
Unity Room
9.
Most immigrants traveled
a)
first class
b)
second class
c)
steerage
d)
fourth class
10.
What are aid organizations that offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death called?
a)
Mass transit
b)
Benevolent Society
c)
Department Store
d)
Sweat shops
11.
What are residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas called?
a)
Tenement
b)
Mass Culture
c)
Suburbs
d)
Benevolent Society
12.
During the 1900s many people moved into
a)
Cities
b)
Warm Weather
c)
Farms
d)
Other Countries
13.
Buildings ten-stories or higher that included steel framework and housed many businesses and people became known as…
a)
Tenements
b)
Skyscrapers
c)
Perimeters
d)
Urbans
14.
Which of the following is NOT an example of mass transit that was used in major cities?
a)
Electric Street Cars (Trollies)
b)
Subway (Metro, A-Train)
c)
Bus/Taxi
d)
Canals
15.
Who invented a safety elevator?
a)
Horatio Alger
b)
Frederick Law Olmstead
c)
Joseph Pullitzer
d)
Elisha Otis
16.
What invention made skyscrapers both possible and practical?
a)
Electric Street Car
b)
Telegraph
c)
Elevator
d)
Air Conditioning
17.
What are leisure and cultural activities shared by many people called?
a)
Mass Culture
b)
Mass Transit
18.
What journalist and photographer became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Mr. Hamm
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Frederick Olmsted
19.
New Immigrants were from
a)
Buladean
b)
South and West Europe
c)
South and Eastern Europe
d)
Mexico
20.
Which of the following was NOT a problem with the tenements?
a)
Overcrowding
b)
Poor Ventilation/air
c)
No Garbage pickup system
d)
Police said they would not help
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