American Society in Transition

What is the main idea of the passage?

• Tenement living had improved through the Gilded Age

• Urban poor faced crowded and unhealthy conditions in tenement housing

• The total number of immigrants in tenement housing was declining

• Politicians were working to improve conditions of tenements

Nativists favored-

• Americans over immigrants; America for Americans only!

• The assimilation of immigrants into American society

• The support of Native Americans

• Open borders and allowing ALL immigrants into the United States

In the late 1800s, where did the majority of immigrants come from?

• China and Southeast Asia

• Canada

• Latin America

• Southern and Eastern Europe

How did the Homestead Act promote the development of the American West?

• creating technology for crop irrigation

• providing cheap and free land for settlers

• removing restrictions on who could settle in the west

• Moving Native Americans to reservations

The Dawes Act-

• set up the reservation system

• granted citizenship to Native Americans

• provided cheap land for American settlers

• divided Native American land into individual land holdings

What would be a prime example of Americanization?

• The Dawes Act selling Native American lands

• The Homestead Act providing lands to settlers

• The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibiting Chinese immigration

• The children of immigrants learning English in school

The political cartoon is referencing-

• Labor unions

• Monopolies and trusts

• Municipal corruption

• Immigration quotas

The passage of the Dawes Act was an attempt to-

• Encourage Americanization of Native Americans by giving up their traditional cultures

• Make money from selling Native American lands

• Returning land to Native American tribes

• Granting citizenship to Native Americans

Political bosses and political machines did which of the following-

• allowed the middle class to actively participate in politics

• provided welfare for the urban poor in exchange for votes

• encouraged racial integration

• helped to lead welfare programs like the Hull House and the YMCA

What shift occurred as a result of urbanization?

• Northerners moved to the southern Sun Belt states

• People moved to urban areas

• People moved to rural areas

• African Americans moved to the North.