Chapter 20 review

• 1 Along with economic troubles, what condition drove people to emigrate?• high cost of housing • ethnic group persecution• weather • poor schools

• 2 How long did it take immigrants to cross the Atlantic Ocean?• 12 days • 60 days • 30 days • 10 days

• Most Asian immigrants went through the processing center on• Ellis Island. • Harbor Island. • Long Island. • Angel Island.

• What legislation required that immigrants be able to read and write in some language?• Chinese Exclusion Act • Asian Immigration Act• Immigration Act of 1917 • European Exclusion Act

• What settlement house was founded by Jane Addams?• Hull House • Addams House• Settlement Aid House • Jane’s House

• Who designed New York’s Central Park and several parks in Boston?• Jane Addams • Jacob Riis• Frederick Law Olmsted • Louis Sullivan

• 7 Who argued that schools should relate learning to the interests, problems, and concerns of students?• Jane Addams • John Dewey • Jacob Riis • Joseph Pulitzer

• What provided funds for land-grant colleges?• Hull House • Pulitzer Prize • Morrill Act • churches

• “Moving pictures” were invented by• Mark Twain. • Thomas Edison.• Andrew Carnegie. • Paul Laurence Dunbar

• 11 Many people immigrate to the United States because of• poor schools. • economic troubles.• no factory jobs. • war.

• To cross the Pacific Ocean to the United States, immigrants were in steerage for• 12 days. • 60 days. • 10 days. • 30 days.

• What was the first law passed to limit immigration?• Immigration Act of 1917 • European Exclusion Act• Asian Immigration Act • Chinese Exclusion Act

• Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called• high-rises. • suburbs. • tenements. • studios.

• What New York bridge opened in 1883?• Brooklyn Bridge • Manhattan Bridge• Eads Bridge • London Bridge

• Rooting for the home team or a local star became a favorite pastime for people who attended• ragtime shows. • spectator sports.• land-grant colleges. • vaudeville shows.

• What were the beginning of today’s multimillion-dollar film industry?• nickelodeons • vaudeville• symphony orchestras• radio programs

Ideas for extended writing

• What were some differences between new immigrants and old immigrants?

• What improvements to transportation helped the growth of cities and suburbs? Explain.

• Name a few cultural differences that immigrants had to adjust to in the U.S.

• What was the new philosophy on education that emerged in the early 1900’s? Explain

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