WorksheetsUrban American ch 4
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 20mins
Movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.
Immigration
Americanization
Urbanization
Nativism
A person moving into another country.
Social Darwinism
Immigration
Urbanization
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an example of what belief?
Urabization
Nativism
Imperialism
Communism
Many immigrations entered the United States through (a) in New York City.
Many immigrants from Asia came into the United States through (a) .
What is one way political machines gained money?
investments
theft
graft
What social group received the most help from political machines?
Upper
Middle
Immigrants
Lower
What did political machines get from people in exchange for help?
(a)
What is a tenement?
large country homes
apartments
multi-family cramped, poorly built apartments
The process of immigrant children learning English, American traditions, customs.
Americanization
Urbanization
assimilation
urbanization
What two organizations were created to help the urban poor?
YMCA
Tenement Houses
Safe House
Salvation Army
What is the purpose of elevated railroads and subway systems?
get large numbers of people off of the streets
transportation to the suburbs
Reduce pollution from horses
raise money for cities
Which of the following are jobs middle class people might have during the early 1900s?
Factory owner
Doctor
Engineer
Maid
Manager
Who founded/created the Hull House?
(a)
Which wealthy businessman practiced philanthropy to establish libraries, concert halls, colleges throughout the United States?
Carnegie
Gould
Pendergast
Boss Tweed
What were popular types of entertainment during the Gilded Age?
Vaudeville (live variety show)
Movies
Ragtime music (especially Scott Joplin)
Baseball
Which president was assassinated in 1881 because a man believed the president should give him a job?
James Garfield
Benjamin Harrisn
Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley
Civil rights leader that believed education should be used to gain civil rights.
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Which Supreme Court case made segregation constitutional and established "separate but equal"
Wabash v Illinois
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott Case
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is the term for a person moving into another country?
Social Darwinism
Immigration
Urbanization
What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas?
Immigration
Americanization
Urbanization
Nativism
Which wealthy businessman practiced philanthropy to establish libraries, concert halls, colleges throughout the United States?
Carnegie
Gould
Pendergast
Boss Tweed
How did W.E.B. Du Bois believe African Americans should increase their Civil Rights?
Voting
Demanding rights
Education
Moving to Africa
In the 1890's, most immigrants arriving in the United States came from
China and South Asia
Canada and Latin America
Eastern and Southern Europe
Ireland and Great Britain
The tripling of the U.S. population between 1870 and 1910 was most directly caused by
rapid industrialization and immigration
the mechanization of agriculture
natural disasters around the world
integration of new states in the west
In the late 1800's, many rural Americans moved to big cities in search of
better- paying jobs
political power
high society
shorter work hours
William M. Tweed was
the engineer who invented the electric trolley car
a corrupt party boss in a political machine
the architect who designed America's first skyscraper
the leader of the Workingman's Party of California
The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
limit the number of immigrants entering the country
assimilate immigrants of various cultures into the dominant culture
improve the living conditions in Americas largest cities
encouraged people to move from the country to the city
A movement concerned wit helping the poor according to biblical principles is
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Gospel of Wealth
Settlement House
The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called:
Nativism
Civil Service
Graft
Gentlemen's agreement
An example of a patronage would be:
bribing a government official
assassinating a public official
saying one thing and doing another
appointing a friend to a political position
Which of the following does not fit in with the political machine?
poor
urban
factory worker
opposed to immigration
Captains of Industry valued competition in a free market because they believed only the strongest companies would survive and result in better goods and services. This is an example of
Unionism
Control Market
Socialism
Social Darwinism
