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Immigration in the Gilded Age Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which was the main point of entry for immigrants

a)

Boston

b)

Crown Island

c)

Ellis Island

d)

San Francisco

2.

If immigrants were sick they would be placed under _______ so they wouldn't get others sick

a)

Deportation

b)

Quarentine

c)

Medical leave

d)

Surveillance

3.

What is this a picture of?

a)

Mercy Houses

b)

Steerage homes

c)

Tenements

d)

Grafts

4.

Most immigrants traveled on the overcrowded third class on boats, known as

a)

Steerage

b)

Tenements

c)

Graft

d)

Economy

5.

People wanted to come to America for

a)

The landscape

b)

Labor unions

c)

Job opportunities

d)

Nice and affordable housing

6.

New Immigrants are from

a)

Western Europe

b)

Africa

c)

Northern Europe

d)

Southern Europe

e)

Eastern Europe

7.

What is NOT a form of corruption during the Gilded Age

a)

Political Machines

b)

Graft

c)

Spoils System

d)

Purity Crusades

8.

The boss of Tammany Hall, the most famous political machine in NYC

a)

Willam Tweed

b)

William McKinley

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

George Tammany

9.

What was NOT a law/regulation restricting immigration?

a)

Gentleman's Agreement

b)

Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

Pullman Act

d)

Quota Act

10.

The majority of Chinese immigrants were initially attracted to America

a)

because they were recruited to work on the railroads

b)

to participate in a free market economy

c)

to escape religious persecution

d)

because of the Gold Rush

11.

Immigrants like political machines because it

a)

provided jobs

b)

was free of political corruption

c)

provided free education

d)

was a way to fight against the Nativists

12.

Wanted to restrict immigration because they would not assimilate

a)

Settlement House workers

b)

Politicians

c)

Nativists

d)

Grafters

13.

Settlement Houses helped the immigrants mainly by

a)

providing them food and money

b)

protecting them from political machines

c)

helping them become naturalized

d)

providing social services

14.

A platform of the Democrats was

a)

restricting immigration

b)

gold standard

c)

fewer blue laws

d)

More government aid to the railroads and union pensions

15.

House was created by her after she visited London and saw settlement houses

a)

Elizabeth Warren

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Jane Riis

16.

What was NOT a step at Elis Island?

a)

Examined during a 6 second physical

b)

Questioned during a legal inspection

c)

Marked for quarantine if you didn't pass the physical

d)

Provided references for naturalization

17.

Christian Reformers trying to aid the poor and immigrants were part of the

a)

Muckrakers

b)

Social Gospel Movement

c)

Nativist

d)

Society for Jesus

18.

Pogroms were targeting

a)

Catholics in Ireland

b)

Jews in Russia

c)

Communist in Italy

d)

The poor in China

19.

The Melting Pot theory supports

a)

Nativistism

b)

Discrimiation

c)

Assimilation

d)

Social Gospel

20.

An area where one ethnic group dominates

a)

Tenement

b)

Suburbs

c)

Settlement

d)

Ghetto