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Week 12: Immigration & Challenges in Cities

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A man who lived in New York City; he became a political boss/party boss and stole millions of dollars from the NYC government. A cartoonist named Thomas Nast drew cartoons criticizing him.

a)

Boss Tweed

b)

Jane Addams

c)

W.E.B DuBois

d)

Abraham Lincoln

2.

Another name for immigrant neighborhoods is-

a)

urbanization

b)

industrialization

c)

ghetto

d)

barrio

3.

This was a settlement house in Chicago started by Jane Addams.

a)

Phyllis Wheatley YWCA

b)

Hull House

c)

The Apollo

d)

Ellis Island

4.

There are places in cities where people from the same countries or ethnic groups lived; examples are Chinatown and Little Italy in New York City

a)

cities

b)

immigrant neighborhoods

c)

areas

d)

reservations

5.

Moving from hand-making items to using machines to make them; people working in factories used machines to help them do their jobs

a)

urbanization

b)

manufacturing

c)

industrialization

d)

factories

6.

A woman who wanted to help poor people and immigrants; she started Hull House in Chicago to do that

a)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Phyllis Wheatley

d)

Jane Addams

7.

This means "not allowing freedom"; many governments don't have freedom of speech or religion

a)

mechanization

b)

urbanization

c)

oppression

d)

suburban

8.

This is an elected official who has many dishonest employees and who is able to control the government with the help of those employees (AKA-a party boss)

a)

Political Boss

b)

Political Machine

c)

Politician

d)

Civil Service Worker

9.

What it's called when a political boss and his employees are running a city or town.

a)

Immigrant Neighborhood

b)

ghetto

c)

Political Machine

d)

Party Boss

10.

This is a place where poor people and/or immigrants could go to get help, learn English, and have daycare or Kindergarten for their children

a)

immigrant neighborhood

b)

immigration

c)

oppression

d)

settlement house

11.

These are dirty, crowded, unsafe apartment buildings found in immigrant neighborhoods

a)

ghettos

b)

skyscrapers

c)

tenements

d)

factories

12.

This is moving from rural areas into cities, usually for better job opportunities-

a)

industrialization

b)

urbanization

c)

mechanization

d)

suburban