WorksheetsGrowth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What government program began in 1862 and led to more than a million land claims in the West?
The Homestead Act
The Pacific Railroad Act
The Indian Removal Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Why was the demand for agricultural products increasing in the U.S. in the mid-late 19th century?
The growth of cities.
The growth of the Midwest.
Reconstruction in the South.
The growth of the West Coast.
What was, and still is, the most populous city at the turn of the 20th century?
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
L.A.
Despite nearly burning to the ground in 1871, which American city became the second most populous?
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Los Angeles
What phenomenon is most responsible for the population boom during this time period in the U.S.?
Immigration
Advances in birth control
Increased agricultural production
All of the above
Which job opportunity did many women prefer because it provided them with set hours and free time in the evenings?
Factory work
Domestic work
Office work
Stay-at-home mothering
What industry did German immigrants such as Frederick Pabst, Joseph Schlitz, and Adolphus Busch help establish in the U.S.?
The brewing (beer) industry
The wine industry
The meat industry
The pizza industry
By the 1980s, more than half of the immigrants to the U.S. came from where?
Southern Europe (Italy) & Eastern Europe (Austro-Hungarian & Russian Empire)
Northern Europe (Norway)
South America
Africa
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were most often which religions?
Catholic or Orthodox
Jewish
Islamic
Protestant
What major challenge did Southern and Eastern European immigrants face when they came to the United States in the late 1800s?
Discrimination based on new theories about race and ethnicity
Immediate acceptance as equal citizens by most Americans
Guaranteed access to farmland through the Homestead Act
Equal employment opportunities with native-born workers
What immigrant group on the west coast was heavily discriminated against in the mid-late 19th century?
The Chinese
The Irish
Eastern Europeans
Southern Europeans
Which congressional act greatly reduced Chinese immigration to the U.S.?
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Homestead Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Chinese Inclusion Act
Which Supreme Court case ruled that American-born children of Chinese immigrants were U.S. citizens due to the 14th Amendment?
U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Plessy v. Ferguson
Scott v. Sandford
Which other locations in the Western Hemisphere also saw large-scale immigration at the turn of the 20th century?
Canada
The Caribbean
South America
All of the above
Who was the biggest supporter of immigration?
Big business
Nativists
Industrial workers
Rural farmers
What is the name of the overcrowded, unsafe, and filthy apartment buildings in which immigrants often lived?
Tenements
High rise
Row Houses
Shotgun houses
Improved transportation led to what outcome according to Crash Course?
Increased housing segregation.
Increased housing integration.
A decrease in pollution.
A decrease in overcrowding.
