Migration Patterns
Arriving to America
Consequences
Industrialization
Test Prep
100
A person who leaves their native country to settle in a new place.
What is an immigrant?
100
European immigrants first arrived here.
What is Ellis Island?
100
An anti-immigrant attitude that developed among native-born Americans during the Industrial Revolution as a result of the influx of immigrants arriving to the U.S. at that time.
What is Nativism?
100
True or False: Mass production refers to a manufacturing process in which large quantities of goods are made in factories allowing the costs of products to decrease.
What is true?
100
This was the first law that explicitly barred an ethnic group from entering the United States.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The 10% Plan
The Sherman Antitrust Act
The Anaconda Plan
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
As railroad lines began to develop across the country, more people were able to move to industrial ___________, like New York and Chicago.
What are cities?
200
"I lift my lamp besides the Golden Door.." this quote is inscribed on what New York landmark?
What is the Statue of Liberty?
200
As a consequence of the terrible conditions workers were exposed to, the low wages and long hours, and their inability to demand changes, workers began to organize and form these.
What are Unions?
200
As steel became cheaper to produce, miles of track for _____________ were laid down allowing people and goods to travel further and faster than before, contributing to the rise of cities in the U.S.
What are trains/railroads?
200
Most new immigrants lived in cities. . .
to be close to industrial jobs.
to meet many Americans.
to abandon their traditions
because cities were welcoming
What is to be close to industrial jobs?
300
As industries began to develop in the Northeastern region of the U.S., people began to migrate from _______ areas to urban areas.
What is rural?
300
The lowest part of a passenger ship that immigrants traveled in reflecting their economic status, as it was the cheapest way of travel but also the worst of conditions often.
What is steerage?
300
This business practiced developed as a consequence of two forces; business owners needed cheap labor, and immigrant families needing all members to contribute and earn money to survive.
What is Child Labor?
300
True or False: Urbanization is the process of a country's populations moving to rural areas over time leading to an abundance of agricultural workers.
What is false?
300
New immigrant arrivals found themselves living in dense urban conditions with people of similar ethnicity in housing called . . .
Shanty
Tenement
Hoovervilles
Apartments
What is a tenement?
400
Industrial jobs, Religious freedom, Educational opportunities; are all examples of this.
What is a pull factor?
400
Processing center that immigrants arriving to the United States from countries such as Japan and China would have passed through or have been detained at.
What is Angel Island?
400
Jacob Riis took photographs to document the decrepit conditions of the available housing in the ________ of New York City's Lower East Side.
What are tenements?
400
As technology increased and means of manufacturing began to change, industries developed by producing large amounts of cheap goods in these.
What are factories?
400
What issue is being depicted in this cartoon?
What is Child Labor?
500
True or False: The growth of different industries caused the urban populations of the United States to increase.
What is a true?
500
This poster is an example of __________; where immigrants lose aspects of their native cultures and gain aspects of the dominate culture (ex: language)
What is assimilation?
500
Labor Unions were created to protect workers but often excluded immigrant laborers. This is because they felt threatened that new immigrants would. . .
What is steal their jobs?
500
Overcrowding • High crime rate • Poor sanitation In the early 1900s, these problems were most directly a result of
muckrakers’ influence
conservation programs
westward migration
rapid urbanization
What is rapid urbanization?
500
Many immigrants initially moved into areas with people of similar ethnicity for all of the following reasons EXCEPT. . .
Keep their traditions and values
Be around others who spoke their language
Learn American values
Create support networks for new arrivals to their communities
What is to learn American values?