This is often associated with the clothing industry.
What are sweatshops?
100
What is the name for immigrants who were from northern Europe?
Who are old immigrants?
100
How many immigrants were turned away from Ellis Island?
What is < 2%?
100
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?
What is because nativists were afraid of losing jobs?
100
Which group of people was the most vulnerable to getting deathly sick?
What are young children? (< 5 years old)
200
This is a public system of transportation designed to move many people around quickly.
What is mass transit?
200
What is the name for immigrants who were from southern and eastern Europe?
Who are new immigrants?
200
What was one way big cities solved the problem of high crime?
What is 24 hour police force?
200
What immigrant processing center did people go through if they immigrated from Europe? What city is it located in?
What is Ellis Island in New York City?
200
Who was the first person to add a color comic strip to his newspaper in 1896?
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
300
These are the residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas.
What are suburbs?
300
This act is the reason why we had such few immigrants from Asia, when compared to European immigrants, during the late 1800s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Because of unsanitary living conditions, overcrowding, and being unable to successfully treat commonly spread viruses and diseases, what was the expected life expectancy of children in the late 1800s?
What is only 50% would live to or beyond the age of 5?
300
Which immigrant processing center did people go through if they immigrated from Asia? What city was it located in?
What is Angel Island in San Francisco?
300
How did big cities solve the problem of lack of building space?
What are skyscrapers? (They built up instead of out.)
400
These are leisure and cultural activities shared by many people.
What is mass culture?
400
This is the area below a ship's deck where most immigrants had to travel.
Where is steerage?
400
What two big improvements led to skyscrapers being built?
What are safe elevators and better steel?
400
Name three examples of mass culture that developed in the late 1800s.
What are comic strips, retail shops, restaurants where you shopped, public parks, public fairs, ice cream cones?
400
Name three problems faced by overcrowded cities during the late 1800s?
What are lack of building space, traffic congestion, physical safety concerns, and high crime rates?
500
This is what you call people who are born in a country and then continue to live in the same country they were born in.
What are nativists?
500
This law required buildings to have better ventilation and running water, even tenement buildings.
What is the New York State Tenement House Act?
500
What three groups of people were moving to cities in large numbers during the late 1800s?
What are southern African-Americans, rural families and immigrants?
500
What city contained the immigrant center for people who immigrated from Mexico? What mode of transportation did they take?
What is El Paso? What is a train or horse or car? (Not a boat.)