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Worksheets5th grade SS weekly 5
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
How did public schools help immigrant children during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
School was a place for memorizing facts.
John Dewey was a famous psychologist and educator.
School was a place where children could learn to read and write a new language, as well as learn a new culture.
Schools were filled with immigrant children trying to adjust to a new and unfamiliar home.
Which caption best describes this photograph?
Workers brought home between $400 and $500 per year.
Most men worked 10-12 hours a day, six days a week.
Teenagers and young children often had to work to help support their families.
They didn't speak English.
Why were large cities good places for immigrants to settle?
Cities were growing places with factories that offered jobs.
Cities were crowded and dirty.
Some anti-immigrant feelings eventually became laws.
There were many poor people living in cities.
Which sentence below best explains the reasons most people immigrated to the United States between the 1880s and 1950s?
Many Jewish people in Europe were being persecuted.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 limited the number of Chinese workers allowed to come to the United States.
Most immigrants came to the U.S. searching for a better way of life. In their home countries, many of these people were poor, hungry, unemployed and without basic freedoms of speech and religion.
Immigrants brought their unique languages, foods and music, contributing to the mix of different cultures that we know as the United States of America.
If the immigrants passed through these steps successfully, they were allowed to enter the country. What does the word "steps" mean in this sentence?
dance moves
stages
stairs
rungs on a ladder
WHy did so many people immigrate to the United States between the years 1880 and 1950?
Many Jewish people in Europe were being persecuted.
A horrible disease destroyed the potato crop in Ireland.
Many of these people were poor, hungry, unemployed and without basic freedoms of speech and religion.
All of the above
What type of work did most immigrants do once they arrived in America?
They worked in factories.
They became nurses to help children stay healthy.
They worked for John Dewey.
They paved the streets with gold.
How do you know this photograph was taken long ago?
The clothing and shoes the children are wearing look old-fashioned.
Children today do not work in factories.
The caption tells the reader the date.
All of the above
Based on what you have read about this week, what topic of information do you think this photograph represents from the choices below?
child labor
children going to school
children during recess
a line at Ellis Island
Push factors...
were reasons immigrants wanted to leave their homelands.
were reasons immigrants wanted to come to the U.S.
were the reasons there were more factories.
were how immigrants qualified to enter through Ellis and Angel Island.
Pull factors were...
reasons immigrants wanted to leave their homelands.
reasons immigrants wanted to come to the U.S.
were the reasons there were more factories.
were how immigrants qualified to enter through Ellis and Angel Island.
Ellis Island mostly processed immigrants from ___.
Asia
Scotland
Europe
United States
Angel Island mostly processed immigrants from ___.
Asia
Scotland
Europe
United States
Native born Americans feared new immigrants would cause an increase in wages and increase jobs.
True
False
New immigrants faced discrimination from native born Americans because many were catholic and Native born Americans thought this made them bad citizens.
True
False
Immigrants worked and provided the labor for the Industrial Revolution (worked in factories, built the transcontinental RR, etc.)
True
False
Immigrants weren't allowed to vote, so they didn't influence politics.
True
False
