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Immigration, Urbanization, and Industrialization

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
a)
Did NOT want religious freedom
b)
Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
c)
Wanted LESS diversity
d)
Wanted to live more simply
2.
How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?
a)
Main station for European immigrants
b)
Main station for Chinese immigrants
c)
Located on the EAST coast
d)
People were only there a few hours
3.
Where were most immigrants from?
a)
Italy
b)
Slavic Countries
c)
Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico
d)
Europe
4.
Immigrants from Europe came here first.  They were taken by ferry boat here.
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
5.

The Statue of Liberty represented all of these to immigrants EXCEPT what?

a)

Freedom

b)

Excitement for a new life

c)

Opportunity to be successful

d)

Fear for a worse life

6.

Doctors examined immigrants for dangerous diseases because...

a)

They didn't want immigrants to bring diseases into the US

b)

They were discriminating against immigrants

c)

They had prejudice and did it just to be mean

d)

They wanted to spread disease

7.

What is a metaphor for the mixture of people of different cultures and races together into Americans?

a)

Mixing Bowl

b)

Angel Food Cake

c)

Fish Tank

d)

Melting Pot

8.

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

a)

They were looking for work on farms

b)

Factories created many job opportunities.

c)

They wanted to settle on the frontier

d)

Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

9.
What is a tenement?
a)
A new form of transportation
b)
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
c)
The end of immigration
d)
A revolutionary war in Africa
10.
 Which factor contributed to the shifting of population from rural to urban areas from 1870-1900?
a)
Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act
b)
Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland
c)
Houses in cities were less expensive than those in the counttryside
d)
 Better jobs in industry attracted farmers and laborers to cities
11.

What motivated many African Americans to migrate North during the Great Migration?

a)

To escape discrimination and prejudice in the South

b)

The hope of equal treatment and better social and economic opportunities

c)

To buy a car

d)

The hope of becoming sharecroppers in the south

12.

Why did Jane Addams establish Hull House in Chicago?

a)

She liked visiting the candy shop with her father on business trips

b)

She wanted to help poor immigrants living in that area

c)

The federal government offered full payment.

d)

It was the best city in all of the United States.

13.

Why was the assembly line invented?

a)

To free the slaves

b)

To make America great again

c)

To reduce the time it took to make one car

d)

For women to vote

14.

How did machines like the cotton gin affect people's lives?

a)

they made the price of goods increase because there was a low demand

b)

they lowered the price of goods, making products more affordable for people

c)

they made more people want to work on plantations

d)

they created jobs in factories for people

15.
The Harlem Renaissance refers to:
a)
A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
b)
A struggle for civil rights by the NAACP
c)
A program to promote African-American owned businesses
d)
A population increase in Harlem during the 1920s