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Industrialization, Immigration and Urbanization

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 15mins

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.
Immigrants from Europe came here first.  They were taken by ferry boat here.
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.
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
9.
 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
10.

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

11.
Define a monopoly.
a)
A card game
b)
businesses that are owned by investors
c)
A company controls all or most of businesses in an industry.
d)
Poor families
12.
Why was steel so important? What was it used for?
a)
Used to make artillery and weapons
b)
Cheap to import from China
c)
It came from Minnesota
d)
Strong. Used for bridges, railways, nails, & skyscrapers 
13.
What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?
a)
long hours, good pay
b)
Low wages, long hours, dangerous
c)
dangerous, long hours, good pay
d)
low wages, good hours. dangerous
14.
Which of the following was responsible for the increased production of steel from iron?
a)
Lowell system
b)
Bessemer process
c)
steam engine
d)
Steel Gin
15.
Immigration push factors are…
a)
reasons people come to a new place
b)
reasons people leave their homelands
c)
reasons people begin working
d)
reasons people stop working
16.
 Immigration  pull factors are…
a)
reasons people come to a new place
b)
reasons people leave their homelands
c)
reasons people begin working
d)
reasons people stop working
17.

Immigrants entering the United States at Angel Island were subject to...

a)

Discrimination

b)

Prejudice

c)

Interrogation

d)

All of the above

18.

Who invented the 1st practical light bulb?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Eli Whitney

19.
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were the "captains" of which industries?
a)
Oil and Ceral
b)
Oil and Steel
c)
Oil and Railroads
d)
Steel and Railroads

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