6th Grade Immigration and City Life Ch. 20

Which is NOT an example of mass transit in the early 1900s?

The “old immigrants” who arrived in America during the 1800s were from...

Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings often occupied by immigrants

Which of the following is true about Chinese immigrants in the 1880s?

Immigration station where most European immigrants came through

Investigated sweatshops, led the fight for reform against child labor/limited hours for women

Business leaders often welcomed immigrant workers because the workers...

Many victims of diseases were babies, who had a ____ chance of living until they were 5.

Which is NOT somewhere the “new immigrants” arrived from?

Which is NOT an example of the formation of mass culture in the U.S. in the late 1800s?

Skyscrapers are buildings at least 10 stories tall with steel frames built by men known as...

In which industry were workplaces in neighborhoods called “sweatshops”?

Sanitation problems were an effect of the overcrowded, unhealthy conditions of city tenements.

What is NOT something that happened at Ellis Island?

What is NOT a way city governments tried to improve city life in the late 1800s?

Which was not a city that had great population growth between 1850 and 1900?

Immigration station where people were held for months, and many were turned back

What was the main cause of air pollution in Pittsburgh in the late 1800s?

What was one effect of mass transit on American cities?

Where was the immigration station for immigrants from Mexico?

Jane Addams was an upper class woman who started the first settlement house in Chicago known as

Why did many immigrants travel to America in steerage?

Why were immigrants often forced to take low-paying industrial jobs in cities?

What did the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act prevent the Chinese from doing?

Invented at the World Fair in 1904

Lack of jobs due to machines forced immigrants to look for employment in the countryside.

Wrote How the Other Half Lives

Many people in America opposed immigration because they feared immigrants would...

Who opposed immigration, believing that too many immigrants were coming into the country?

Which word is a synonym (means the same) for “city?”

Jacob Riis became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City

Which is NOT a reason for Chicago's rapid growth in the early 1900s?

The 1901 New York State Tenement House Act required that...

Helped immigrants in case of sickness, unemployment, or death.

Which is NOT a cause of air pollution in the early 1900s?

A system of public transportation created to move a large number of passengers

Because the transition into American culture was difficult, many immigrant families...

Which of the following statements about tenements is true?

What did Pulitzer and Hearst add to their newspapers in 1896 in order to sell more newspapers?

A center offering education and recreation in a poor area