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WorksheetsReview: Chapter 5: Immigrants and Urban Life
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 34mins
To adjust to a new life immigrants
didn't learn to speak English and spoke their native language
moved into neighborhoods with people from different countries
moved into neighborhoods with others from the same country
wanted to go back to their home countries
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years
Was the first time America banned a single group from America
None of above
All of the above
Mass transit is
residential neighborhood outside of downtown areas
leisure and cultural activities shared by many people
giant retail shops
public transportation designed to move many people
Many immigrants lived in these run-down urban buildings.
cabins
nickelodeons
apartments
tenements
Why were immigrants often forced to take low-paying jobs in cities?
Immigrants lacked skill needed to get better jobs
Americans refused to allow immigrants to farm
It was illegal to allow immigrants higher paying jobs
Immigrants did not have the tools to work other jobs
Because the switch to American life was difficult many immigrant families
Chose to live in areas with mostly American families
returned to their home countries
moved into other areas with people form their home countries
kept their native customs secret
What was the main change brought by the steel industry to American architecture of the late 1800s?
Steel was used to build skyscrapers that needed limited city space
Every building was built with steel fire escapes
Residential neighborhoods called suburbs could be built cheaply
Steel could be combined with brick to create new buildings
What did city governments do to try to improve city sanitation in the late 1800s ?
built public hospitals
hired full-time firefighters
built water purification systems
forced steel factories to limit pollution
Immigrants who came from Northern Europe in the mid 1800s?
old immigrants
tenements
new immigrants
sweatshops
Immigrants who came from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 1800s?
tenements
old immigrants
new immigrants
sweatshops
This was the nickname of workplaces usually associated with the clothing industry that had long hours and unhealthy working conditions
Old immigrants
Sweatshops
New immigrants
Suburbs
Lawrence Veiller's photograph exhibit helped get the ____ _____ ______ Tenement House Act passed
Alabama State
New Jersey State
New York State
South Carolina State
Americans who opposed increased immigration to the US were called
imperialists
industrialists
old immigrants
nativists
Area below a ship’s deck where new immigrants traveled
Steerage
customs
benevolent societies
sweatshops
Organizations that offered immigrant families help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death
benevolent societies
Pauline Newman
Chinese Exclusion Act
Amadeo Giannini
This is the name for Americans who feared too many new immigrants were being allowed into the country
nativists
El Paso
benevolent societies
Chinese Exclusion Act
This banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
customs
nativists
Krusty Krab Act
Main cause of pollution in Pittsburg -
Smoke from Steel Mills
Garbage dumped in rivers
How often were immigrants rejected at Ellis Island?
More that 2% but less than 10% of the time
About 50% of the Time
Less than 2% of the time
Never
What was a major factor in the rapid growth of the city of Chicago?
It was home to an immigration center
Railroads ran through it connecting the east and west coast
People were paid to move there
Employees were paid more in Chicago than anywhere else in the United States.
Inspired reforms, helped the immigrant population in Chicago. Most famous settlement house of the time.
Tenement House
Benevolent House
Hull House
Riis House
Most of the victims of disease such as cholera, influenza, and tuberculosis in cities during the late 1800s were______.
Elderly
Horses
Women
Children
Worked at the Hull House and helped pass laws that limited women's working hours and ended child labor.
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley
Jacob Riis
Lawrence Veiller
One of the effects of the overcrowded and unhealthy conditions in the city was that
Many people left the city and moved to the countryside
Disease spread easily
People lived a very long life in the city
People developed high immune systems in the city
