IMMIGRATION AND URBANIZATION - GILDED AGE

As population and price of land increased, how did cities accommodate business and living in urban areas?

• More land purchased through the Homestead Act.

• Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Use of tall steel frame buildings called Skyscrapers.

• Temporary living accommodations in Settlement Houses.

Overcrowding and lack of health/safety protocol in urban areas caused families to live in small, dark, unsanitary, single-room apartments called ____________________.

• Condos

• Lofts

• Tenements

• Flats

What is the name of the corrupt "party boss" that headed the political machine, Tammany Hall?

• William "Boss" Tweed

• Thomas Nast

• William McKinnley

• William Jennings Bryan

What was the name given to those that tried to prevent all immigrants from entering and working freely in the United States?

• The Anti-Federalists

• The Whigs

• The Nativists

• The Federalists

What was the term for ethnic neighborhoods that many immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age?

• Enclaves

• Tenements

• Slums

• Neighborhoods

During the Gilded Age, the expansion of ___________________ led to corruption in government, but also improved basic services and urban infrastructure.

• Infrastructure

• Nativists

• Monopolies

• Political Machines

The government encouraged Native Americans and Immigrants to adopt white-American culture in a process called ___________________.

• Assimilation/Americanization

• Nativistism

• Communism

• Vietnamization

Based on this poster, which is an accurate statement?

• Immigrants were encouraged to learn and to speak English.

• Granite City had laws prohibiting immigrants from moving there.

• The people in the poster were native-born Americans.

• Granite City encouraged diversity in its immigrant population.

What is the name of the settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane Addams?

• Young Men's Christian Association

• Hull House

• Salvation Army

• Jane Addams Continuation School

The movement concerned with helping the poor and spreading Christianity throughout immigrant communities was called ______________________________.

• The Social Gospel Movement

• The Gospel of Wealth

• Social Darwinism

• The Temperance Movement