Changing Society

Question 1

Ellis Island

Answer 1

Processing center in New York Harbor- noisy chaotic and confusing many immigrants were turned away for health and other problems

Question 2

Nativist Movement

What problems did New

Immigrants face

Answer 2

People who opposed immigrations and supported the Chinese Exclusion Act and Quota acts to limit immigration

Question 3

New Immigrants

Answer 3

People from South Eastern Europe came after 1880 mostly Italian and eastern European

Question 4

Jane Addams(Hull House)

Answer 4

Founded the first settlement house Hull house in Chicago

Question 5

Tenements

Answer 5

Crowded apartment building unhealthy unsanitary

Question 6

Slums

Answer 6

Dirty, Crowded, Crime

Question 7

Sweat Shops

Answer 7

Crowded dirty Factories, unhealthy unsafe lacked ventilation and safety standards

Question 8

Gilded Age

Answer 8

Time period from about 1870 to 1900 that describes a time of incredible economic growth and wealth but at the same time poverty and corruption, disease and crime

Question 9

What was it like for a New

Immigrant arriving in

America?

Answer 9

Chaotic confusing, many immigrants lived in tenements and took low paying factory jobs