WorksheetsUrbanization Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Many immigrants lived in overcrowded apartments with poor ventilation and sanitation. These were called:
Slums
Tenements
Suburbs
Urban Developments
Which of these statements best describes how new immigrants to the U.S. were treated?
New immigrants were given the best places to live
New immigrants instantly received the same rights as native-born Americans
New immigrants were always welcomed with open arms
New immigrants were often discriminated against socially and legally
This term means the growth and development of cities:
Urbanization
Discrimination
Immigration
Migration
The growth of cities was mostly due to
Better urban planning
Extension of cities into rural areas
An improvement in living conditions
An increase in immigration from other countries
Which person helped immigrants in New York City, but also took advantage of them to profit off of government funds?
William (Boss) Tweed
Thomas Clifford
Robert Moore
Upton Sinclair
Political machines provided new city dwellers with necessities such as jobs and housing in exchange for
Labor
Land
Wages
Votes
Settlement houses, like the Hull House created by Jane Addams, were created to:
Help immigrants find educational opportunities
Help immigrants find jobs
Give immigrants child care
All of the above
What created a 10-year halt on all Chinese labor immigration?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Labor Immigration Act
Chinese Worker Act
Invitation to Work Act
"Some immigrants were pushed from their homeland while others were attracted to the United States. They served as the cheap labor force in the new, developing businesses and their presence caused a dramatic increase in city populations."
The except above best identifies the factors that brought about rapid...
urbanization and industrialization.
free enterprise and nativism
mercantilism and slavery.
innovation and mechanization.
Which trend of the late 1800s correctly replaces the question make in this cause-and-effect diagram?
The number of immigrants from Europe declined
The government passed laissez-faire laws
People moved from rural to urban areas
Settlement houses lost federal funding
Immigration
stopped political corruption
helped grow and develop cities
was bad for the United States
ended world hunger
True or False: Many immigrants were discriminated against when then arrived in the United States?
True
False
What two issues lead to overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods?
Urbanization
Automobiles
Industrialization
Aeroplanes
Americans moved from ______ to ______ areas in order to find better job opportunities.
urban, rural
rural, urban
Which group of immigrants faced racial discrimination?
Native Americans
Jewish
Irish
Italians
crowded apartment buildings for immigrants
tenements
immigrants
urban
settlements
a specific area in a city where an ethnic group of similar culture, religion, and language lives
Ghetto
Oppressive
Tenement
Urbanization
community centers in urban areas established by social and religious workers to meet the needs of people in poor neighborhoods
Ghetto
Settlement Houses
Tenement
Hull House
