Module 21 Test

Public transportation systems built to move many people and ease traffic in crowded cities

• Mass transit

• Private vehicles

• Suburban housing

• Personal bicycles

Founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889

• Jane Addams

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorothea Dix

• Florence Kelley

Organizations created by immigrants to help each other in times of sickness, unemployment, or other troubles

• Benevolent societies

• Trade unions

• Political parties

• Religious congregations

Law banning Chinese people from moving to the United States

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement

Neighborhood centers in poor urban areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities

• Settlement houses

• Tenement buildings

• Factories

• Boarding schools

Landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park

• Frederick Law Olmsted

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Le Corbusier

• Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Small shops or mills where immigrants worked for long hours in hot, unhealthy conditions

• Sweatshops

• Tenements

• Factories

• Boarding houses

From what parts of the world did the wave of new immigrants come?

• Southern and Eastern Europe, China, Mexico

• Africa and Australia

• South America and Antarctica

• North America and the Arctic

In what ways did immigration patterns in the United States change in the late 1800s?

• Immigrants increasingly came from Southern and Eastern Europe.

• Different cultural and religious backgrounds.

• Immigration to the United States decreased significantly.

• Most immigrants were from Africa.

The difficulties that immigrants faced were worth the benefits of life in the United States.

• True

• False