Immigration/Urbanization

Question 1

Push Factors

Answer 1

Conditions that drive people from their homes

Question 2

Pull Factor

Answer 2

Conditions that attract immigrants to a new area

Question 3

Ellis Island

Answer 3

New York, immigrants were mostly from Europe

Question 4

Angel Island

Answer 4

San Francisco, California, immigrants were mostly from Asian countries

Question 5

Nativists

Answer 5

people who wanted to limit immigration

Question 6

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 6

Barred Chinese laborers from entering the country. In addition, no Chinese person who left the U.S. could return.

Question 7

Urbanization

Answer 7

the movement of a population from farms to cities

Question 8

Skyscrapers

Answer 8

tall buildings with many floors and lightweight steel frame construction

Question 9

Suburbs

Answer 9

residential area outside or near the city

Question 10

Settlement House

Answer 10

community centers that offered services to the poor

Question 11

Building Codes

Answer 11

set standards for construction and safety

Question 12

Social Gospel

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Salvation Army

Answer 13

spread Christian teachings, offered food and shelter to the poor

Question 14

Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMCA)

Answer 14

provided social activities, encouraged good citizenship, and helped Jewish Families preserve their culture

Question 15

Compulsory Education

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Parochial Schools

Answer 16

Church sponsored schools

Question 17

Joseph Pulitzer

Answer 17

man who owned the New York world.

To win readers he slashed prices and added comic strips

Question 18

The New York World

Answer 18

Featured stories about crime and political scandals

Question 19

William Randolph Hearst

Answer 19

owned the New York Journal

Question 20

New York Journal

Answer 20

featured stories on crime, gossip, and scandals

Question 21

Dime Novels

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Realists

Answer 22

tried to show the harsh side of life as it was

Question 23

What are some examples of Push Factors?

Answer 23

scarce land
farm machines were replacing workers
political or religious persecution
political unrest

Question 24

What are some examples of Pull Factors?

Answer 24

jobs
land
religion
promise of freedom

Question 25

What were the two receiving stations?

Answer 25

Ellis and Angel Island

Question 26

How was adapting to American life?

Answer 26

Immigrants often settled in their own neighborhoods Within those neighborhoods immigrants often spoke their own language, celebrated their special holidays, and prepared their own food. Religion stood at the center of immigrant family life. House of worship united people

Question 27

What were some reasons for resentment on immigrants?

Answer 27

took jobs, others feared them because they were different

Question 28

What is with the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Answer 28

most americans did not understand Chinese customs, some chinese did not try to learn American ways most Chinese-Americans lived in tight-knit communities called China Towns

Question 29

Why did Urban Populations boom?

Answer 29

population increased due to influx of immigrants and other people seeking jobs

Question 30

What newly invented invention helped carry people to upper floors?

Answer 30

elevators

Question 31

What happened with moving people?

Answer 31

More people were crowded into small spaces, they added to a growing problem of traffic. First electric streetcar system was developed. Streetcars ran to outlying countryside the suburbs

Question 32

What was Entertainment in Cities?

Answer 32

Baseball, Football, Basketball, Vaudeville, Shopping

Question 33

What was the settlement house movement? Who led it?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What were some services offered at a settlement house?

Answer 34

Taught classes in American government and English, gave instructions on health care, provided nurseries for children, and provided recreational activities.

Question 35

Why did Urban Reform?

Answer 35

New buildings were required to have fire escapes and decent plumbing Workers were hired to collect garbage, factories were kept out of neighborhoods where people lived. Cities set up fire companies and a police force.

Question 36

What were the two public schools and what did each do?

Answer 36

Compulsory Education: The curriculum taught english to immigrants and stress the importance of citizenship Parochial Schools: Their textbook was McGuffey's Eclectic Reader, which taught Reading, Writing, and Math Emphasized discipline and obedience

Question 37

Why did Newspapers boom?

Answer 37

as education spread, people read more Newspapers reported on major events of the day. Featured stories about local government, business, fashion, and sports

Question 38

What were new reading habits?

Answer 38

new printing methods lowered the cost of magazines Newspapers added special sections to attract women readers, sections on fashion, social events, homemaking and family matters

Question 39

Who were new American Writers?

Answer 39

Realists

Question 40

What did new american writers want?

Answer 40

Realist writers had seen poverty and wanted to make people aware of the costs of urbanization and industrial growth