ss test 1/14

Question 1

How many people were crammed into steerage class on ships full of immigrants?

Answer 1

2000

Question 2

This Amendment is known as the National Prohibition Act

Answer 2

18th amendment

Question 3

True or false The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Answer 3

true

Question 4

Ellis Island awaited immigrants on the East Coast. What was the main immigration station for the West Coast

Answer 4

angel island

Question 5

What is a government sponsored, organized attack on a Jewish community called?

Answer 5

pogrom

Question 6

This Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.

Answer 6

21st amendment

Question 7

True or False The Majority of immigrants who came through Angel Island were Asian.

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

Which class ticket would allow an immigrant to skip Ellis Island and get off right in Manhattan.

Answer 8

First Class

Question 9

Many immigrants were attracted to the U.S. West Coast (California) because there was work on the TCR & the Gold Rush.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Families never were separated at Ellis Island, if one was allowed through, everyone from the family could go.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Religous persecution would be a —— factor

Answer 11

PUSH factor

Question 12

Religous Freedom would be a ——- factor

Answer 12

Pull factor

Question 13

True or False: Industrial jobs was the CHIEF pull factor for immigrants.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Living in severe poverty would be a ——- factor

Answer 14

PUSH factor

Question 15

What is a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages called?

Answer 15

prohibition

Question 16

True or False :Al Capone was a Prohibition Era Gangster out of New York.

Answer 16

FALSE

Question 17

An advanced education system would be a —- factor

Answer 17

PULL factor

Question 18

A safe enviornment to raise a family would be a —- factor

Answer 18

PULL factor

Question 19

___________ drew people to cities.

Answer 19

Jobs

Question 20

True or False :Poor people in cities lived in small apartments call tenements.

Answer 20

true

Question 21

In what city did more than half the babies die in slum around the year 1900?

Answer 21

CHICAGO

Question 22

True or False: Western States of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado gave women the right to vote before the 19th Amendment.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False: Even before building codes, most tenements had decent plumbing and fire escapes

Answer 23

False

Question 24

The Prohibition Era saw a rise in what?

Answer 24

Organized Crime

Question 25

Up to how many people could live in a single apartment in a tenement.

Answer 25

10

Question 26

Jacob Riis was a photojournalist who raised awareness about what?

Answer 26

tenement living conditions

Question 27

True or False: People living in tenements enjoyed great privacy in their apartments

Answer 27

False

Question 28

How many immigrants came to the USA between 1865 and 1915

Answer 28

25 million

Question 29

What was the intention behind the prohibition Era?

Answer 29

reduce crime

Question 30

True or False: Suffrage is the right to vote

Answer 30

True