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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