Immigration & Urbanization

Immigrants from China and Japan entered the US through which immigration station?

• Ellis Island

• Long Island

• Angel Island

After 1882, where did most European immigrants enter the U.S.?

• Ellis Island

• Liberty Island

• Angel Island

• Long Island

What law banned (stopped) immigration from China between 1882 and the end of WWII?

• Immigration Act of 1917

• The Gentlemen's Agreement

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

A tenement was

• an apartment building in the suburbs

• an overcrowded quickly built apartment building in the slums

• a place in the slums that helped immigrants with housing, jobs, and daycare

Which of these is NOT an example of an urban problem in the early 1900s?

• bad sanitation

• crime

• too many opportunities

• dangerous housing

Falls Church, Vienna, and McLean are examples of which area?

• urban

• suburbs

• rural

What is urbanization?

• rapid growth of cities

• migration of farmers to foreign countries

• the growth of the suburbs

What were some of the countries that many New Immigrants came from?

• France, Great Britain, and Denmark

• Italy, Greece, and Russia

• Australia, Mexico, and Spain

Which of the following are pull factors in the late 1800s? (3)

• Religious Freedom

• Job opportunities

• Dirty and dangerous cities

• cheap land

What allowed cities to build up and have many skyscrapers?

• really tall ladders

• cheap steel and the elevator

• subways