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Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What government program began in 1862 and led to more than a million land claims in the West?

a)

The Homestead Act

b)

The Pacific Railroad Act

c)

The Indian Removal Act

d)

The Chinese Exclusion Act

2.

Why was the demand for agricultural products increasing in the U.S. in the mid-late 19th century?

a)

The growth of cities.

b)

The growth of the Midwest.

c)

Reconstruction in the South.

d)

The growth of the West Coast.

3.

What was, and still is, the most populous city at the turn of the 20th century?

a)

New York

b)

Chicago

c)

St. Louis

d)

L.A.

4.

Despite nearly burning to the ground in 1871, which American city became the second most populous?

a)

New York

b)

Chicago

c)

St. Louis

d)

Los Angeles

5.

What phenomenon is most responsible for the population boom during this time period in the U.S.?

a)

Immigration

b)

Advances in birth control

c)

Increased agricultural production

d)

All of the above

6.

Which job opportunity did many women prefer because it provided them with set hours and free time in the evenings?

a)

Factory work

b)

Domestic work

c)

Office work

d)

Stay-at-home mothering

7.

What industry did German immigrants such as Frederick Pabst, Joseph Schlitz, and Adolphus Busch help establish in the U.S.?

a)

The brewing (beer) industry

b)

The wine industry

c)

The meat industry

d)

The pizza industry

8.

By the 1980s, more than half of the immigrants to the U.S. came from where?

a)

Southern Europe (Italy) & Eastern Europe (Austro-Hungarian & Russian Empire)

b)

Northern Europe (Norway)

c)

South America

d)

Africa

9.

Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were most often which religions?

a)

Catholic or Orthodox

b)

Jewish

c)

Islamic

d)

Protestant

10.

What major challenge did Southern and Eastern European immigrants face when they came to the United States in the late 1800s?

a)

Discrimination based on new theories about race and ethnicity

b)

Immediate acceptance as equal citizens by most Americans

c)

Guaranteed access to farmland through the Homestead Act

d)

Equal employment opportunities with native-born workers

11.

What immigrant group on the west coast was heavily discriminated against in the mid-late 19th century?

a)

The Chinese

b)

The Irish

c)

Eastern Europeans

d)

Southern Europeans

12.

Which congressional act greatly reduced Chinese immigration to the U.S.?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

The Homestead Act

c)

Pacific Railroad Act

d)

Chinese Inclusion Act

13.

Which Supreme Court case ruled that American-born children of Chinese immigrants were U.S. citizens due to the 14th Amendment?

a)

U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark

b)

Yick Wo v. Hopkins

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Scott v. Sandford

14.

Which other locations in the Western Hemisphere also saw large-scale immigration at the turn of the 20th century?

a)

Canada

b)

The Caribbean

c)

South America

d)

All of the above

15.

Who was the biggest supporter of immigration?

a)

Big business

b)

Nativists

c)

Industrial workers

d)

Rural farmers

16.

What is the name of the overcrowded, unsafe, and filthy apartment buildings in which immigrants often lived?

a)

Tenements

b)

High rise

c)

Row Houses

d)

Shotgun houses

17.

Improved transportation led to what outcome according to Crash Course?

a)

Increased housing segregation.

b)

Increased housing integration.

c)

A decrease in pollution.

d)

A decrease in overcrowding.