2.6 Review

These provided basic services for immigrants and the poor, in exchange for their votes.

• Big business leaders

• Political "bosses" and "political machines"

• The Homestead Act

• "Push" and "Pull" factors

Reasons why immigrants leave or come to another country are known as:

• The Homestead Act

• Immigration

• "Push" and "Pull" factors

• Ethnic ghettos

The rapid growth of big cities during the Gilded Age was known as:

• Urbanization

• Ruralization

• Factory work

• Minimum wage

Which group opposed immigration during the Gilded Age?

• Ranchers

• Farmers

• Big business leaders

• Nativists

Which was the first federal law restricting immigration?

• The German Exclusion Act

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Irish Exclusion Act

• The Native American Exclusion Act

"New Immigrants" predominately came from where?

• Germany

• Ireland

• Southeastern Europe

• Mexico

Many poor people who lived in overcrowded cities lived in poorly kept housing called:

• Tenements

• Skyscrapers

• Factories

• Huts

The powerful political boss who controlled New York City was:

• Boss Tweed

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie

• Vanderbilt

Ideas such as "Americanization," "melting pot," and "assimilation" described which of the following?

• a way to find jobs for immigrants

• a way to integrate immigrants into American society

• a way to exclude immigrants

• a way to deport immigrants

Based on the information in this graph, why did immigration increase rapidly between 1895 and 1905?

• Railroad construction created jobs for immigrants.

• Cheap land prices in the West attracted immigrant farmers.

• Industrial growth provided factory jobs for immigrants.

• World War I caused immigrants to flee Europe.