social studies immigration

Question 1

what is an emigrate

Answer 1

a person who is leaving their homeland

Question 2

what is an immigrant

Answer 2

a person who is arriving in a new country

Question 3

what is urban like

Answer 3

a city

Question 4

what is a tenement

Answer 4

a neighborhood that is rundown and overcrowded

Question 5

what is a slum

Answer 5

an overcrowded poor rundown urban area

Question 6

the middlclass was made up of

Answer 6

doctors lawyers ministers managers office clerks

Question 7

who was at the top of the economic ladder

Answer 7

the very rich

Question 8

what did the very rich do with their money

Answer 8

build mansions and huge estates

Question 9

what was this era called

Answer 9

gilded age (gilded-covered with thin layer of gold)

Question 10

what did the rapid growth of citites cause

Answer 10

poo and sewage that cause disease to spread very quickly, and skyscrapers

Question 11

threats to city life

Answer 11

poverty that caused crime and the poowage

Question 12

settlements houses are

Answer 12

places in large cities where people get assistance with social problems and challenges from urbaness

Question 13

famous settlement house

Answer 13

chicago hull house

Question 14

architect that became on of the first to build upwards(thanks to iron frames used in 1860s)

Answer 14

louis sullivan

Question 15

in 1884 william leBaron jenney put up

Answer 15

a 10 story first every skyscraper in chicago

Question 16

the group of people that believed city dwellers should be able to enjoy nature were

Answer 16

the City Beautiful movement led by Frederick Law Olmsted

Question 17

what did Frederick Law Olmsted design

Answer 17

central park, parks in boston, palo alto campuses and public spaces and in Washington and dc. grounds that the worlds fair in Chicago 1892-1893 held that showed American architecture was dynamic and original

Question 18

in 1837 san francisco

Answer 18

began to construct cable-car lines

Question 19

in 1888 richomond virginia pioneered the us of the

Answer 19

trolley(small train powered by overhead electric cables) car

Question 20

1897- bosotn opened the first

Answer 20

subway

Question 21

huge steel bridges were a thing that

Answer 21

improved transportation

Question 22

some bridges

Answer 22

eads bridge in stlouis, brooklyn bridge in new york,

Question 23

pull factors:

Answer 23

jobs, hope, and land

Question 24

steerage

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inexpensive quarters for passengers below the deck of a ship

Question 25

push factors

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the pull factors, poor economy in homeland, overcrowding, poverty, farmers had crop failures, unfair laws against some ethnic groups

Question 26

who were among the immigrants for new york

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greeks, russians, hungarians, italians, turks, poles, (many catholic and jew)

Question 27

where did these immigrants often live

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neighborhoods with others of their nationality

Question 28

new immigrants got

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asked where they were from, their job, any relatives, health exams, and the examiners shortened their name if needed

Question 29

in the east immigrants stopped first at castle garden

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and immigrants come through ellis island in new york harbor

Question 30

asian immigrants sailed to california

Answer 30

and went through the processing center on angel island in san franciso bay

Question 31

nativists were

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people that opposed immigration

Question 32

what did organization sometime do

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recruit workers

Question 33

what did recruiters supply American employers with

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unskilled workers to unload cargo, dig ditches, and other

Question 34

most immigrants wanted to

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assimilate

Question 35

how did immigrants recreart their cultures

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church, synagogues where there were services, holidays, published newspapers in their native languages, stores, theatres, social clubs

Question 36

why nativists happen

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fear of immigrants stealing jobs, drive down wages by working for less pay

Question 37

1882- congress passed the chinese exclusion act which

Answer 37

prohibited chinese workers from entering the united states for 10 years

Question 38

1897-congress passed a bill that required

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immigrants to be able to tread and write some language

Question 39

1907-japan and unitedb states both agreed to limit the number of

Answer 39

japanese. immigrants