Immigration Exam

Question 1

Who believed that former slaves should focus on vocational education?

Answer 1

Booker T. Washington

Question 2

Who supported public education for immigrants to assimilate in US culture?

Answer 2

John Dewey

Question 3

Who was driven out of Memphis for her editorials on lynching?

Answer 3

Ida B. Wells

Question 4

Who created the theory of evolution based on natural selection?

Answer 4

Charles Darwin

Question 5

Who supported currency based on a silver standard?

Answer 5

populists

Question 6

Who coined the phrase, “The Gilded Age,” in reference to the age of industry?

Answer 6

Mark Twain

Question 7

Who wrote “How the Other Half Lives”?

Answer 7

Jacob Riis

Question 8

What created the standard “separate but equal”?

Answer 8

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 9

Where was the first subway station location?

Answer 9

Boston

Question 10

What is a reason for immigrants to leave their home country called?

Answer 10

push factor

Question 11

What is a reason for immigrants to come to the United States?

Answer 11

pull factor

Question 12

Who wrote “Gospel of Wealth”?

Answer 12

Andrew Carnegie

Question 13

What was the entry point into the United States for western Europeans?

Answer 13

Ellis Island

Question 14

What is the belief that America should be for native-born Americans only?

Answer 14

nativism

Question 15

Who was the founder of Hull House?

Answer 15

Jane Addams

Question 16

What was Hull House?

Answer 16

a settlement house in Chicago

Question 17

What is the belief that those with the most money (wealth) were the most “fit”?

Answer 17

Social Darwinism

Question 18

What was the entry point into the US for Asian immigrants?

Answer 18

Angel Island

Question 19

What banned Asian immigrants from entering the US, starting in 1882?

Answer 19

the Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 20

What was the slogan for nativism?

Answer 20

“America for Americans”

Question 21

What did Andrew Carnegie state that it was the duty of the wealthy to allocate money for humanitarian efforts in?

Answer 21

the Gospel of Wealth

Question 22

What were organizations linked to political parties that often controlled the local government called?

Answer 22

Unions

Question 23

Who supported an academic education for African Americans?

Answer 23

Web DuBois

Question 24

What were the laws created to separate whites from African Americans called?

Answer 24

Jim Crow Laws

Question 25

Where did the “new” wave of immigrants come from?

Answer 25

central & eastern Europe

Question 26

Who designed the interior of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower?

Answer 26

Alexander-Gustave Eiffel

Question 27

Where is Angel Island located?

Answer 27

San Francisco Bay

Question 28

What were tenements?

Answer 28

living conditions in cities known for their cramped conditions

Question 29

What was the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

Answer 29

tragic event that left 100,000 people homeless & is theorized to have started with a cow

Question 30

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

Answer 30

Booker T. Washington

Question 31

What was the Bosses of the Senate?

Answer 31

a political cartoon published by Joseph Keppler

Question 32

Open Response: How does Bosses of the Senate show political corruption?

Answer 32

1. The “people’s entrance” portion is barred off, which represents that the companies are doing it behind the public’s backs
2. The industry leaders are bigger than the senators & are moneybags, which shows that they have control and power
3. The sign “This is the Senate of the Monopolists by the Monopolists and for the Monopolists!”