Immigration Test Review Topics 2.4-2.6

Question 1

Which of the following was NOT an advantage that cities offered people?

Accepted Answer

Increased Crime and Assault

Question 2

What federal law allowed Western land for cheap and provided transportation to that land?

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

Question 3

Which of the following was NOT a sanitation issue in the cities?

Accepted Answer

Department stores turned away customers

Question 4

Which was not a pull factor for European immigrants?

Accepted Answer

War / Revolution

Question 5

Where was the first mass transit system in the United States located?

Accepted Answer

Richmond, VA

Question 6

Who designed Central park in New York City?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Law Olmstead

Question 7

What was the name of the nation's best known amusement park during this time?

Accepted Answer

Coney Island

Question 8

What were half-way houses for Immigrants to learn American culture and the English language?

Accepted Answer

Americanization

Question 9

Who were chain immigrants joining in America?

Accepted Answer

Family and friends already here

Question 10

Which of the following was not a provision of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Accepted Answer

Forbid Chinese from passing through Ellis Island

Question 11

John Dewey was a Progressive reformer in which field?

Accepted Answer

Education

Question 12

What was the belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers called?

Accepted Answer

Nativism

Question 13

In the acronym W.A.S.P., what does the "P" stand for?

Accepted Answer

Protestants

Question 14

Who invented the game of basketball?

Accepted Answer

James Naismith

Question 15

Where did most Asian immigrants enter the United States?

Accepted Answer

Angel Island

Question 16

Who invented the safety elevator?

Accepted Answer

Elisha Otis

Question 17

Who coined the term,"Gilded Age"?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 18

What does Gilded Age mean?

Accepted Answer

Having a rotten core covered in gold

Question 19

Rural-to-Urban Migrants are better known as?

Accepted Answer

Farmers

Question 20

What was the name of the 1st Nickelodeon movie?

Accepted Answer

The Great Train Robbery

Question 21

Which tactic did Rowland Macy NOT use?

Accepted Answer

Paid Spokesperson/ Mass Flyers and Coupons

Question 22

Which 2 religions were most new immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Catholic and Jewish

Question 23

Who was the editor of the New York World?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Pulitzer

Question 24

Where did most European immigrants enter the United States?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 25

Which of the following was NOT a push factor for immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Opportunity

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