WorksheetsCh. 21 - Immigration & Urbanization
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What type of music was developed by African Americans in New Orleans in the late 1800s?
ragtime
opera
jazz
vaudeville
What two newspaper giants popularized yellow journalism?
Pulitzer & Morgan
Vanderbilt & Carnegie
Morgan & Carnegie
Pulitzer & Hearst
When you leave your homeland, you are _____________ from there.
emigrating
immigrating
isolating
urbanizing
Immigrants sometimes felt __________________________ when they arrived in the United States.
isolated
employed
recruited
important
Some immigrants ____________________ by adopting American culture.
were isolated
emigrated
assimilated
disassociated
Many immigrants lived in these run-down urban buildings.
cabins
nickelodeons
apartments
tenements
This became a popular spectator sport in the US in the early 1900s.
football
baseball
soccer
basketball
These neighborhoods in cities were run-down, and many contained mostly immigrant populations.
suburbs
tenements
slums
Gold Coast
The Chinese were ________________________ to help build the Transcontinental Railroad.
recruited
rejected
turned down
fired
Jane Addams started a _____________________________ in Chicago to help the poor.
hospital
assimilation program
hotel
settlement house
This is the term for below-deck quarters for low-paying passengers on ships.
economy
steerage
bridge
tenements
Scott Joplin, the King of __________________, made this off beat music originating along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers one of the most popular types of music in the early 1900s.
jazz
blues
hip hop
ragtime
This system limited immigrants from certain countries or without certain skills.
quota
limits
tenement
vaudeville
With Ford's development of the Model T, the middle class began living outside the cities in the _________________.
urban areas
suburbs
farms
rural areas
This type of show, which included a variety of acts, became very popular during the early 1900s.
vaudeville
opera
concerts
nickelodeon
People who share a common descent and culture.
nativists
immigrants
settlement house
ethnic group
These developed because the federal government gave money to states to teach practical skills.
settlement houses
land-grant colleges
suburbs
ivy league schools
This group of people was against immigration.
patriots
railroad barons
nativists
company owners
