USII 4b Industrialization Review I

Read the sentence:

"It was common for several families to be cramped into a two-room apartment with no sunlight or ventilation.

What word could best replace cramped as used in this sentence?

• packed

• allowed

• beaten

• placed

All of the following are reasons immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900 EXCEPT--

• escape from high taxes

• better climate

• religious freedom

• escape famine and land shortages

Which reason was NOT a challenge faced by immigrants in the cities?

• Political corruption led by political machines using the votes of immigrnats
• Many factory jobs available
• Housing shortage with many people crowded into cheaply built tenement buildings
• Dishonest employers often taking advantage of immigrant workforce

What is the process in which immigrants become part of the American culture and American Indians become part of the white culture? 

• Assimilation
• Acceptance
• Conversion
• Nativism

What was Ellis Island?

• An amusement park
• An immigration center in New Jersey
• An immigration center in New York
• The first capital of the United States

Where was Angel Island located?

• San Antonio, Texas
• New York, New York
• San Francisco, California
• Los Angeles, California

An immigrant is a

• person trying to be a king

• person who cooks at a restaurant

• person who moves to a different country to live

• person who believes in aliens

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Political Machines in major cities often helped immigrants with food, money and entertainment but what words describe what the Political Machines REALLY were?

• Happy, jovial

• Corrupt, dishonest

• Sad, unhappy

• Honest, Trustworthy

Immigrant processing center near New York, which processed mostly European Immigrants.  (Hint: Statue of Liberty)

• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• San Francisco
• Sicily

Founder of "Hull House"

• Susan B. Anthony
• Boss Tweed
• Jacob Riis
• Jane Addams