APUSH 6.8 & 6.9

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

• They were primarily unskilled laborers.

• They were mainly female.

• They were predominately from southern and eastern Europe.

• They often formed ethnic communities.

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

• Latin America

• Asia

• Canada

• Europe

A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

• Alice Paul

• Jane Addams

• Carry Nation

• Margaret Sanger

Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

• alcoholics

• immigrants

• African Americans

• orphaned children

Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

• establishing day nurseries for working mothers

• offering literacy and language classes for immigrants

• teaching classes on cooking and dressmaking

• organizing women workers into labor unions

Which of the following was true of the settlement house workers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• They included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women.

• They established settlement houses in middle-class environments.

• They avoid political involvement.

• They endeavored to suppress immigrant cultures.

During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?

• African Americans leaders

• Educated middle-class women

• Scandinavian immigrants

• Labor leaders

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

• all races were equal in ability

• conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

• science had no role in society

• personal development was influenced solely by hereditary factors