The Gilded Age and Immigration

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What does the term gilded mean?

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Covered in a thin layer of gold

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What was Ellis Island?

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A check-in-station for immigrants coming to America.

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Which of the following is NOT a challenge that immigrants faced when coming to America during the Gilded Age? Discrimination, Finding jobs, New diseases, Language barriers

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New diseases

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What were tenement houses?

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Small, cramped apartments for poor people

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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?

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Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

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During the Great Migration, many African Americans moved from the _______ to __________.

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South to the North

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Which of the following is the best definition of Social Darwinism? A theory that the rich are rich because they’re better, and the poor are poor because they’re worse, The belief that helping the poor will help society, A theory that the government should help out the economy in a time of crisis, The idea of the government should stay "hands-off" in the economy

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A theory that the rich are rich because they’re better, and the poor are poor because they’re worse

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Many immigrants who first came to America moved into what type of living space?

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Tenement Houses