Immigration / Urban America WS

Question 1

What trends or events in other countries promoted people to move to the US in the late 19th and earliest 20th century

Answer 1

Poverty, famine, land, shortages, jobs, political persecution

Question 2

What did the Chinese exclusion act do?

Answer 2

It excluded the Chinese from America (few exceptions)

Question 3

It excluded the Chinese from America (few exceptions)

Answer 3

Chinese exclusion act

Question 4

What did the Gentlemen’s agreement do?

Answer 4

Excluded the Japanese students in San Francisco

Question 5

What act excluded Japanese students in San Francisco?

Answer 5

The Gentlemen’s Agreement

Question 6

Movement to help people adjust?

Answer 6

Settlement-house

Question 7

What solutions to urban problems did the settlement-house movement propose

Answer 7

Provided educational, cultural, and social services in poor neighborhoods

Question 8

Why were African americans drawn to cities in the Northeast and Midwest?

Answer 8

More cultural opportunities and less discrimination

Question 9

What was done in response to the problem of crime in the cities?

Answer 9

Full time police departments