Immigration and Urbanization 1. When did the U.S. experience a large wave of immigration? 2. Looking at the chart, between the 1860s and 1920s what decade had the highest immigration? 3. How many people came in that year? 4. Overall what decade had the highest immigration and how many people came that year? 5. Looking at the pie charts between 1820 and 1919 where did the majority of the immigrants come from? 6. Since 1970 what two areas are the majority of them come from? 7. Between 1881 and 1920 how many new immigrants arrived in the United States? 8. Where did they come from? 9. Where did most of them come from? 10. Why did they come? 11. What made it easier for the poor Europeans to come? 12. In the first decade of this period where did they most immigrants come from? 13. What were the major push factors for the immigrants? 14. What area did a lot of the Jews come from? 15. What were the pull factors for the immigrants of this period? 16. What were the characteristics of typical immigrants of this period? 17. Beginning in 1892 where did most immigrants pass through? 18. What happened to them there? 1
19. What were the intentions of many of the immigrants? 20. What is the term for these people? 21. What had happened to many of these eastern and southern Europeans at home? 22. Why did they come to America? 23. How did many of these people come? 24. What did they expect to do after a few years? 25. Between 1907 and 1911 what ratio of Italians returned to the old country? 26. For southern and eastern Europeans as a whole what was the ratio? 27. Before 1890 where did the majority of immigrants come from? 28. After 1890 where did they come from? 29. By 1910 how many Russians immigrated to the US? 30. For what reasons did the Russians come America? 31. How many Italians migrated to the US by 1920? 32. Italian make up what percent of the nation s foreign born population? 33. Approximately how many Chinese immigrants had arrived between 1851 and 1883? 34. What was the entry point to the Chinese into America? 35. How long were they detained there? Year 1848 36. Pull factor/jobs 2
1862-1869 37. After 1869 38. 39. What happened in the 1880s? 40. In 1884 what did the Japanese government do? 41. Where did the Japanese, Koreans, and Filipino immigrants work in the farms? 42. How is the American annexation of Hawaii affect this immigration? 43. By 1920 how many Japanese lived on the west coast? 44. How were the Japanese treated? 45. What did Congress enact between 1882 and 1924? 46. What things did the Chinese exclusion act do? 47. Between 1880 and 1920 how many immigrants arrived from the West Indies? 48. Where did they come from? 49. How many Mexicans arrived in the early 20 th Century? 50. In the late 19 th Century how did most immigrants arrive? 51. How long was the trip? 52. What were the destinations for Europeans and Asians? 53. How long did the processing at Ellis Island time take? 54. What happened to sick people? 3
55. What else did they have to show? 56. From 1892 to 1924 how many people went through Ellis Island? 57. Where is Angel Island located? 58. Compared to Ellis Island what was Angel Island like? 59. What did some of the immigrant groups create? 60. What did many start to think of themselves as? 61. What is nativism? 62. What did they lead? 63. What occurred in the late 19 th century in the Northeast and Midwest? 64. Where did most immigrants settle? 65. By 1910 how much of the 18 major cities did immigrants make up? 66. What did the rapid improvement of farming technology mean for farm workers? 67. Where did they go for work? 68. How many African Americans left for the cities? 69. What was housing like? 70. What was sanitation like? 71. Was there adequate a transit system? 72. What were the problems with the water? 73. What increased as the population increased? 74. Why was fire a problem? 75. What are two examples of two fires major fires? 4
76. Who was Jacob Riis? 77. What did the Social Gospel Movement preach? 78. What did the settlement homes provide? 79. What did Jane Addams found? 80. As the cities grew in the late 19 th Century what also grew? 81. What did the political machines control? 82. What did ward bosses and precinct captains work to do? 83. What did the Boss typically do? 84. Since precinct captains and ward bosses were usually 1 st and 2 nd generation immigrants what did they do? 85. What are the examples of political machine corruption in the PowerPoint? 86. What was William Boss Tweed the head of? 87. What was the Tweed ring led my Boss Tweed? 88. How many counts of fraud and extortion was Tweed found guilty of? 89. What was he sentenced to and why did he not serve the full sentence? 90. What is the patronage system? 91. What is the merit system pushed in by reformers? 92. What did the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 do? 5