People
Vocabulary
Immigration
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Answer
100
Immigrants from northern Europe
Old Immigrants
100
Giant retail shops
department stores
100
How did immigrant children learn English in schools?
McGuffey's Readers
100
What was the immigrant center on the West Coast near San Francisco called?
Angel Island
100
Identify this state
Colorado
100
Why did some people oppose new immigrants?
They were worried that immigrants would take jobs away from native-born Americans
200
Designed multistory buildings called skyscrapers
Louis Sullivan
200
The area below the ship's deck where steering mechanisms were located
Steerage
200
What was the busiest immigration center on the East Coast?
Ellis Island
200
Designed the safety elevator
Elisha Otis
200
Name this state
New Mexico
200
Why did African Americans from the rural South move to northern cities in the 1890s?
They hoped to escape discrimination and find better educational and economic opportunities.
300
Designed Central Park in New York City
Frederick Law Olmsted
300
poorly built, overcrowded apartments that immigrant families lived in
tenements
300
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr created this which was the most famous settlement house of the period
Hull House
300
What amusement park was created in New York City?
Coney Island
300
Name this state
Idaho
300
Why were buildings in the mid-1800s only five stories tall?
The building materials available were either too weak or too heavy.
400
Reformer of Hull House who visited sweatshops and wrote about the problems there
Florence Kelley
400
leisure and culture activities shared by many people
mass culture
400
What was the act that banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years?
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
Who became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City?
Jacob Riis
400
Name the State
Utah
400
Why did immigrants move into neighborhoods with others from the same country?
It allowed immigrants to speak their own language and eat foods that reminded them of home. They could also practice customs that their families had passed down from generation to generation.
500
Owner of the New York World who was first to add color comics to his newspaper
Joseph Pulitzer
500
Workplaces that had long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions
sweatshops
500
Aid organization that offered immigrants help in case of sickness, unemployment, or death
benevolent societies
500
What was invented at the St. Louis World's Fair?
ice cream cones
500
Name the state
Oregon
500
What happened at immigration centers?
Officials interviewed and examined the immigrants to decide whether to let them enter the country. People with infectious diseases or legal problems could be turned away.