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WorksheetsImmigration and Urbanization
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
If the immigrant children assimilated into the American Culture, their parents worried about
loss of their lunch money
losing their tempers
loss of their former culture
The Social Gospel Movement, Settlement House, the YMCA and the Salvation Army all helped
cure disease
the urban poor
lower the tax burden
Nativists believed we should do ALL, except...
help the people
let the first people in an area priority over newcomers
limit immigration
limit "new religious groups
Ellis Island was near which city?
Boston
New Jersey
New York
What were tennements?
Middle class housing
suburbs outside the city
overcrowded, unsafe, and dirty buildings in cities
Opposition to immigration is known as what?
Nativism
Patricism
Klan-Thinking
Xenophobia
True or False: everyone in cities had access to clean drinking water?
True
false
True or False: Human and animal waste were found frequently on city streets
true
false
In 1882, Congress passed this act to ban all Chinese, except teachers, students, gov's official
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Inclusion Act
Transatlantic partnership Act
Americans didn't like immigrants because they were afraid they would take their...
jobs
houses
girlfriends/boyfriends
families
The process of accepting and acquiring the dominant culture is...
Nativism
Imperialism
Acculturation
What happened if immigrants didn't pass the physical exam to enter to the US?
Detained until they were better
sent back home
Given medical and legal care
Which of the following in NOT a condition immigrants dealt with on boats coming to USA?
fleas
disease
fresh air
discrimination
The unsanitary and overcrowded "apartments"in which more than one family lived in?
Urban developments
tenements
tin pan alley
condiments
What is urbanization?
growth of economy
growth of cities
shrinking of economies
shrinking of cities
What are Pull factors?
Reasons why you came into America
Reasons why Americans didn't like immigrants
Reasons why immigrants didn't like Americans in the 1900s
What are Push Factors?
Reasons why you came to a country
Why Americans didn't like immigrants
Reasons why you left your home country
The main Purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Actpassed by congress was to
Decrease Chinese immigration to the USA
created segregated classrooms
Settle a disagreement between China and USA
Which of the following places did MOST new immigrants come from?
South America
Dominican Republic
Europe
Australia
Neighborhood center staffed by proffesionals and volunteers offering help to the poor...
town house
tenement
Settlement House
steerage
What was the cheapest accomodations on a stemship?
steerage
First Class
Barn Yard
Middle Passage
Which Societal group lived in the best circumstances during the late 1800s?
Upper Class
Middle Class
Poor
What does this picture represent?
Opposition to spending money on an immigrant on Ellis Island
Immigrants seem as garbage from a ship
Lady Liberty showing disgust for immigrants in her face
all answers are correct
Who was the founder of the Hull House?
Jane Adams
George Washington
John Adams
Sandra Bobadilla
This is a picture of an immigrant family. They are most likely living in a _______________?
tenement
hotel
appartment
Why did Jane Addams establish the Hull House in Chicago?
To raise support for the cause of women’s suffrage
To organize a powerful political machine
To provide assistance for the poor living in tenement slums
A standard set by the government for building construction and safety...
Building Codes
Safety Codes
Slave Codes
Building Laws
What pulled people to cities?
economic opporunity
Lack of food
poor sanitation
religious persecution
Identify the push factor
Lack of food
financial success
Freedom
identify the pull factor.
famine
freedom of religion
religious persecution
