Immigration/Urbanization

Question 1

push factor

Answer 1

conditions that drives people from their homes

Question 2

pull factor

Answer 2

conditions that attract immigrants to a new area

Question 3

nativist

Answer 3

people who wanted to limit immigration

Question 4

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 4

Barred Chinese laborers from entering the country

Question 5

Urbanization

Answer 5

The movement of a populations from farms to cities

Question 6

skyscrapers

Answer 6

Tall buildings with many floors and lightweight steel frame construction

Question 7

suburbs

Answer 7

residential areas outside or near the city

Question 8

settlement house

Answer 8

community centers that offered services to the poor

Question 9

building codes

Answer 9

set standards for construction

Question 10

social gospel

Answer 10

ministers called on their well-to-do members to do their duty christians by helping society’s poor

Question 11

salvation army

Answer 11

spread christian teachings, offered food and shelter to the poor

Question 12

compulsory education

Answer 12

laws that required children to attend school, up to sixth grade

Question 13

curriculum

Answer 13

taught english to immigrants and stress the importance of citizenship

Question 14

What services did settlement houses offer?

Answer 14

taught classes in American government and english, gave instruction on health care, provided nurseries for children, and provided recreational activities

Question 15

What were some of the push factors?

Answer 15

Land was scarce, farm machines were replacing workers, political or religious persecution, and political unrest

Question 16

what were some of the pull factors?

Answer 16

jobs, land, religion, and promise of freedom

Question 17

parochial scools

Answer 17

church sponsored schools

Question 18

What were some of the classes parochial schools taught?

Answer 18

The three R’s “reading, riting, and rthmitic

Question 19

Joseph Pulitzer

Answer 19

Owned the New York world. Slashed prices and added comic strips

Question 20

The New York World

Answer 20

features stories about crime and political scandals

Question 21

Yellow Journalism

Answer 21

sensational news reporting style

Question 22

Dime Novels

Answer 22

Low-priced paperbacks, offered thrilling adventure stories. Many stories were about the wild west.

Question 23

Realists

Answer 23

Tried to show the harsh side of life as it was

Question 24

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain)

Answer 24

used local color- the speech and habits of a particular region to make his stories realistic

Question 25

What are some building codes?

Answer 25

Set standards for fire escapes, Garbage pickup, sanitation system, and set up a police force and a fire department

Question 26

New York Journal

Answer 26

featured stories on crime, gossip, and scandals

Question 27

William Randolph Hurst

Answer 27

owned New York journal

Question 28

criticize

Answer 28

to judge harshly

Question 29

What did new printing methods do for newspaper and magazine companies?

Answer 29

lowered the price

Question 30

How did an increase in education help newspaper companies?

Answer 30

As education spread people read more

Question 31

Why did population increase?

Answer 31

population increase do to influx of immigrants and other people seeking jobs

Question 32

Who lead the settlement house movement?

Answer 32

Jane Addams lead the settlement house movement when she moved into a poor neighborhood in Chicago and helped the poor

Question 33

Ellis island

Answer 33

New York immigrants were mostly form Europe

Question 34

Angel island

Answer 34

San Francisco, California, immigrants were mostly from Asian countries

Question 35

Were did immigrants mostly settle when they got to America?

Answer 35

immigrants settled in their own neighborhoods, (people who spoke their language, celebrated their special holidays, and prepared their own food)

Question 36

Did religion mean a lot to immigrants?

Answer 36

religion stood at the center of immigrants family life

Question 37

Where did most immigrants settle when they got to a new country?

Answer 37

they lived in Urban areas

Question 38

What did many parents say there children needed for their education?

Answer 38

they said their children need religion for their education

Question 39

YMHA( young men's Hebrew association)

Answer 39

Provided social activities; encouraged good citizenship

Question 40

Department stores

Answer 40

provided everything in different sections

Question 41

What did immigrants live in?

Answer 41

they lived in tenements