WorksheetsShutting Out the Sky Chapters 4-5
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is a person that rents housing to someone?
tennant
landlord
trustee
boarder
A person that sales items (wares) is a...
entrepreneur
patron
peddler
employee
The item shown in this picture is a...
thimble
sewing cap
safety pin
thumbkin
Choose jobs immigrants may have done in the early 1900s.
gas station attendant
babysitter
garment shop worker
electrician
factory worker
A person that sews or mends clothing is a...
tailor
cobbler
clerk
messenger
How many are in a gross?
12
130
144
2,000
What is a refusal to work organized by a group of employees to get their needs met?
boycott
march
strike
compromise
What is the best main idea statement for chapter 4?
Work for immigrants in the 1900’s was often unsafe, difficult, and never ending.
Factory conditions for workers were not well regulated.
Chapter 4 is about immigrants expriences with working.
People often worked so long they did not see the light of day.
What are possible activities immigrants would have been engaged in to socialize in the early 1900's?
theater
shopping
religious gatherings
barbershops
movies
Why did immigrants in the early 1900's shop so frequently?
Their families were all large.
They did not have a way to preserve food for a long time.
They changed their mind often.
Where might you find sandwich meats and cheeses?
In a bakery
In a deli
In a sweatshop
An idiom taken from this time period means to speak your mind or tell your opinion. What is it?
be a spout
talk someone's ear off
get on your soapbox
Pg 71 What does teeming mean?
loud
full
dangerous
quiet
Pg 73 What does cajole mean?
trick
yell at
scare
persuade
Pg 73 What is a caucophony?
languages
collection
harsh mixture of sounds
large area
Pg 80 What does famished mean?
innocent
hungry
sad
funny
