Immigration/Urbanization

Question 1

Push Factor

Answer 1

Conditions that drives people from their homes.

Question 2

Pull Factor

Answer 2

Conditions that attracts people to an area.

Question 3

Nativist

Answer 3

People who wanted to limit immgration.

Question 4

Ellis Island

Answer 4

New York immigrants mostly from Europe

Question 5

Angel Island

Answer 5

San Francisco Immigrants mostly from Asia

Question 6

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 6

Barred Chinese laborers from entering the country In edition 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 light weight steel frame construction

Question 9

Suburbs

Answer 9

Residential areas outside or near the city

Question 10

Settlement homes

Answer 10

Community centers that offered services to the poor

Question 11

Jane Addams

Answer 11

Started the settlement house movement

Question 12

Building Codes

Answer 12

Set standards for construction e.g. fire escapes garbage police fire department

Question 13

Social Gospel

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Salvation Army

Answer 14

Spread christian teachings, offered food and shelter to the poor

Question 15

What services did Settlement houses offer?

Answer 15

Taught classes in American government and English, gave instructions on health care, etc.

Question 16

What were some of the push factors?

Answer 16

Push factors could be that land was scarce, war, Farm machines were replacing workers.

Question 17

What were some of the pull factors?

Answer 17

Pull factors could be freedom.