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This is the amount of people who lived in the US around 1900
What is 30 million people
This is a tall steel building that dotted the urban landscape
What are skyscrapers
These are dark and crowded multi-family apartments
What are tenements
Identify and explain some pull factors for immigrants of the late 1800s into the early 1900s.
economic opportunity, religious freedom, and social equality. (answers will vary)
City drinking water became a major problem as immigrants settled in urban areas. What were some negative consequences of consuming contaminated drinking water
What are sickness and disease including typhoid fever and cholera
Define two problem the immigrants faced while living in the US.
Answers will vary
An extreme dislike for foreigners by native-born people
What is nativism
These were and still are today problems in urban areas. (Any answer accepted)
What is crime, violence, fire, disease, and pollution.
Successful assimilation for immigrants depended on what factors
What is learning English, embracing American norms, possessing skills and money and settling in ethnic groups for support (answers will vary)
The most significant feature of the Gilded Age (1870-1890) was the transition to focus more on who
What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Which law/act was originally created to halt the unfair business practices of mainly the railroad industry
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
These people blamed immigrants for the increase in crime and violence.
What are Native-born Americans
When immigrants arrived in the United States why did they have to go through a physical and mental questionnaire
What is to see if they were physical, socially, and mentally, capable of being a productive citizen in the United States
Explain what Andrew Carnegie's theory was as it related to the poor
What is wealthy Americans should create conditions that would allow the poor to help themselves
In the late 1800s, many rural Americans moved to big cities in search of
Better paying jobs/opportunities
This was one of the key issues that separated democrats and republicans along party lines in the election of 1888
What is the tariff debate
Most immigrants traveled this way as they made their journey to the United States
What is steerage (not the Lido deck that's for sure)
What was the driving force behind the growth of the middle class during the late 1800s and early 1900s
Industrialization and better paying jobs/opportunities (answers will vary)
According to Social Darwinism who were the "most fit"
What were white industrialized societies
In response to urban congestion, Boston and New York City built the firs
What ended Japanese immigration to the United States
A gentlemen's agreement
As millions of immigrants arrived to the United States this location became a hosting stage for them
What is Ellis Island
Identify and explain some push factors that encourage immigrants to embark on a journey to the United States
What are war in their homeland, famine, poverty, and prejudice (answers will vary)
Who thought success was built upon humans' abilities to cooperate
Who is Lester Frank Ward