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Ch. 21 - Immigration & Urbanization

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of music was developed by African Americans in New Orleans in the late 1800s?

a)

ragtime

b)

opera

c)

jazz

d)

vaudeville

2.

What two newspaper giants popularized yellow journalism?

a)

Pulitzer & Morgan

b)

Vanderbilt & Carnegie

c)

Morgan & Carnegie

d)

Pulitzer & Hearst

3.

When you leave your homeland, you are _____________ from there.

a)

emigrating

b)

immigrating

c)

isolating

d)

urbanizing

4.

Immigrants sometimes felt __________________________ when they arrived in the United States.

a)

isolated

b)

employed

c)

recruited

d)

important

5.

Some immigrants ____________________ by adopting American culture.

a)

were isolated

b)

emigrated

c)

assimilated

d)

disassociated

6.

Many immigrants lived in these run-down urban buildings.

a)

cabins

b)

nickelodeons

c)

apartments

d)

tenements

7.

This became a popular spectator sport in the US in the early 1900s.

a)

football

b)

baseball

c)

soccer

d)

basketball

8.

These neighborhoods in cities were run-down, and many contained mostly immigrant populations.

a)

suburbs

b)

tenements

c)

slums

d)

Gold Coast

9.

The Chinese were ________________________ to help build the Transcontinental Railroad.

a)

recruited

b)

rejected

c)

turned down

d)

fired

10.

Jane Addams started a _____________________________ in Chicago to help the poor.

a)

hospital

b)

assimilation program

c)

hotel

d)

settlement house

11.

This is the term for below-deck quarters for low-paying passengers on ships.

a)

economy

b)

steerage

c)

bridge

d)

tenements

12.

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.

a)

jazz

b)

blues

c)

hip hop

d)

ragtime

13.

This system limited immigrants from certain countries or without certain skills.

a)

quota

b)

limits

c)

tenement

d)

vaudeville

14.

With Ford's development of the Model T, the middle class began living outside the cities in the _________________.

a)

urban areas

b)

suburbs

c)

farms

d)

rural areas

15.

This type of show, which included a variety of acts, became very popular during the early 1900s.

a)

vaudeville

b)

opera

c)

concerts

d)

nickelodeon

16.

People who share a common descent and culture.

a)

nativists

b)

immigrants

c)

settlement house

d)

ethnic group

17.

These developed because the federal government gave money to states to teach practical skills.

a)

settlement houses

b)

land-grant colleges

c)

suburbs

d)

ivy league schools

18.

This group of people was against immigration.

a)

patriots

b)

railroad barons

c)

nativists

d)

company owners