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Immigration (3-10)

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

African Americans moving from the South to the North looking for better jobs/lives

a)

Immigration

b)

Internal Migration

c)

Great Migration

d)

Urbanization

2.

A person moving from Europe to the United States looking for better jobs/lives

a)

Immigration

b)

Internal Migration

c)

Great Migration

d)

Urbanization

3.

A family moving from one part of the country to another

a)

Immigration

b)

Internal Migration

c)

Great Migration

d)

Urbanization

4.

Urbanization is the growth of cities

a)

True

b)

False

5.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of immigrants were admitted to the U.S. primarily because of the economy's need for more

a)

Skilled craftsman

b)

unskilled factory workers

c)

education professionals

d)

scientist, doctors, and lawyers

6.

As cities began to industrialize, streets became overcrowded, ghettos formed, and the diseases spread due to unsanitary cities. Because of this, we see new forms of transportation like trolleys and automobiles that allow the Middle-Class workers to move out of the overcrowded cities but still work there. Where are these middle-class families going?

a)

Smaller cities

b)

rural towns

c)

farms

d)

suburbs

7.

"I'd rather be in prison in Detroit than to be free in the South"

a)

Immigration

b)

Great Migration

c)

Urbanization

8.

Enclave were neighborhoods with one ethnic group

a)

True

b)

False

9.
Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?
a)
Washington, D.C.
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Baltimore
10.
What is the term 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
11.
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)
The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.
b)
Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.
c)
Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
d)
Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.
12.
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