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Immigration and Urbanization

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If the immigrant children assimilated into the American Culture, their parents worried about

a)

loss of their lunch money

b)

losing their tempers

c)

loss of their former culture

2.

The Social Gospel Movement, Settlement House, the YMCA and the Salvation Army all helped

a)

cure disease

b)

the urban poor

c)

lower the tax burden

3.

Nativists believed we should do ALL, except...

a)

help the people

b)

let the first people in an area priority over newcomers

c)

limit immigration

d)

limit "new religious groups

4.

Ellis Island was near which city?

a)

Boston

b)

New Jersey

c)

New York

5.

What were tennements?

a)

Middle class housing

b)

suburbs outside the city

c)

overcrowded, unsafe, and dirty buildings in cities

6.

Opposition to immigration is known as what?

a)

Nativism

b)

Patricism

c)

Klan-Thinking

d)

Xenophobia

7.

True or False: everyone in cities had access to clean drinking water?

a)

True

b)

false

8.

True or False: Human and animal waste were found frequently on city streets

a)

true

b)

false

9.

In 1882, Congress passed this act to ban all Chinese, except teachers, students, gov's official

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Chinese Inclusion Act

c)

Transatlantic partnership Act

10.

Americans didn't like immigrants because they were afraid they would take their...

a)

jobs

b)

houses

c)

girlfriends/boyfriends

d)

families

11.

The process of accepting and acquiring the dominant culture is...

a)

Nativism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Acculturation

12.

What happened if immigrants didn't pass the physical exam to enter to the US?

a)

Detained until they were better

b)

sent back home

c)

Given medical and legal care

13.

Which of the following in NOT a condition immigrants dealt with on boats coming to USA?

a)

fleas

b)

disease

c)

fresh air

d)

discrimination

14.

The unsanitary and overcrowded "apartments"in which more than one family lived in?

a)

Urban developments

b)

tenements

c)

tin pan alley

d)

condiments

15.

What is urbanization?

a)

growth of economy

b)

growth of cities

c)

shrinking of economies

d)

shrinking of cities

16.

What are Pull factors?

a)

Reasons why you came into America

b)

Reasons why Americans didn't like immigrants

c)

Reasons why immigrants didn't like Americans in the 1900s

17.

What are Push Factors?

a)

Reasons why you came to a country

b)

Why Americans didn't like immigrants

c)

Reasons why you left your home country

18.

The main Purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Actpassed by congress was to

a)

Decrease Chinese immigration to the USA

b)

created segregated classrooms

c)

Settle a disagreement between China and USA

19.

Which of the following places did MOST new immigrants come from?

a)

South America

b)

Dominican Republic

c)

Europe

d)

Australia

20.

Neighborhood center staffed by proffesionals and volunteers offering help to the poor...

a)

town house

b)

tenement

c)

Settlement House

d)

steerage

21.

What was the cheapest accomodations on a stemship?

a)

steerage

b)

First Class

c)

Barn Yard

d)

Middle Passage

22.

Which Societal group lived in the best circumstances during the late 1800s?

a)

Upper Class

b)

Middle Class

c)

Poor

23.

What does this picture represent?

a)

Opposition to spending money on an immigrant on Ellis Island

b)

Immigrants seem as garbage from a ship

c)

Lady Liberty showing disgust for immigrants in her face

d)

all answers are correct

24.

Who was the founder of the Hull House?

a)

Jane Adams

b)

George Washington

c)

John Adams

d)

Sandra Bobadilla

25.

This is a picture of an immigrant family. They are most likely living in a _______________?

a)

tenement

b)

hotel

c)

appartment

26.

Why did Jane Addams establish the Hull House in Chicago?

a)

To raise support for the cause of women’s suffrage

b)

To organize a powerful political machine

c)

To provide assistance for the poor living in tenement slums

27.

A standard set by the government for building construction and safety...

a)

Building Codes

b)

Safety Codes

c)

Slave Codes

d)

Building Laws

28.

What pulled people to cities?

a)

economic opporunity

b)

Lack of food

c)

poor sanitation

d)

religious persecution

29.

Identify the push factor

a)

Lack of food

b)

financial success

c)

Freedom

30.

identify the pull factor.

a)

famine

b)

freedom of religion

c)

religious persecution