Pushing and Pulling Factors
These are the factors prompting you to leave your home country
What are pushing factors?
Nativist policies were against these peoples
Who are immigrants?
This invention killed the streetcar.
What are automobiles?
This city was the desperate for solutions so they built a prototype sewer system
What is Memphis
These places brought families out of crowded urban life for a little fun and rides.
What are amusement parks
These are the factors bringing you to the U.S
What are pulling factors?
The hate group that practiced nativism in its 2nd incarnation
What is the KKK?
Many Americans who didn't come to the cities from out of country came from these places.
What are farms?
Although tenement life was hard immigrants built this in the neighborhoods where they lived.
What is community?
Stores sold more then ever before when people saw these posted about
What are advertisments?
These are immigrants who came to the United States before the Civil War.
Who are old immigrants?
This severely impacted immigration from China
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This process made skyscraper buildings possible
What is the bessmer process?
Which of these is true?
Tenements were
A. Large but often packed with multiple families
B. Small but accommodated modern conveniences
C. Small and poorly built
What is C?
This made newspaper sales skyrocket
What is learning to read at public school?
These are factors that pushed Chinese Americans out of China towards the United States.
What are wars or land reform
A city that evicted its chinese population in 1885.
What is Tacoma?
These were the primary pushing factors for African Americans to leave the South
What are black codes?
This man created the photojournalism project "How the Other Half Lives" to chronicle the plight of the Urban Poor in the late 19th century
Who is Jacob Riis?
This President called leaders of college football together to conference about ways to make the deadly pastime safer.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This act tempted immigrants with free land
What is the 1862 Homestead Act?
This 1854 ruling denied Chinese Americans the right to testify against white citizens
What is People vs. Hall?
According to Wendover Productions, this creates economic opportunity wherever its available.
What is affordable public transit?
Besides building the 1st sewer system Col. George Waring did this to New York.
What is hired thousands of men to clean up the streets?
This event attracted city dwellers interested in the Wild West
What is Buffalo Bills Wild West Show?