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- 1. Multiple Choice
It is a process that spans generations and involves a fair share of ambivalence. The loss of traditions and a psychic sense of displacement mix with the benefits of becoming a middle-class American. There are always two sides to every bargain.
The above description is describing what process?
Industrialization
Assimilation
Urbanization
Naturalization
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is one unique quality of Italian-American immigrants during the Gilded Age?
They tended to respect familial authority, but reject institutional authority.
They largely stayed in America once coming to the country.
They shared a lot of qualities with "Old Immigrants"
They came from Northern Europe.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The political cartoon best exemplifies what philosophy?
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Social Reform
Capitalism
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the best example of Americanization?
Moving from Italy to an ethnic enclave in New York City.
Emigrating to the United States to work in the steel factories.
Temporarily moving to California from China to work on railroad construction.
Emigrating from Eastern Europe to Western Pennsylvania and enrolling your son in a local school.
- 5. Multiple Choice
"Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for - public ends would work good to the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life."
This excerpt best exemplifies what principle?
Americanization
Industrialization
Capitalism
Gospel of Wealth
- 6. Multiple Choice
The move to establish Settlement Houses best exemplifies:
A desire to segregate immigrants and the poor
Reform to tenement housing
A desire to bring rich and poor together to alleviate stresses of poverty
A desire to Americanize recent immigrants
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who famously established Hull House?
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
Jacob Coxey
Jane Addams
- 8. Multiple Choice
What group of people would not be labeled as inferior by Social Darwinists?
Recent Russian Jew immigrant.
Tenement dweller.
Protestant German immigrant.
Union steel worker.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What social reformer famously documented live among the poor in tenement houses in New York City?
Jacob Riis
Jane Adams
Jacob Coxey
Upton Sinclair
- 10. Multiple Choice
Immigration legislation during the Gilded Age targeted all of the following goals EXCEPT:
A reduction of overall immigration from Europe
Restriction of immigrant labor from Asia.
Prevention of Chinese citizenship
A mechanism to deport "unlawful" immigrants
- 11. Multiple Choice
“Another marked characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon is what may be called an instinct or genius for colonizing. His unequaled energy, his indomitable perseverance, and his personal independence, made him a pioneer. He excels all others in pushing his way into new countries.”
Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most accurately described as
populism
Social Darwinism
Assimilation
Imperialism
- 12. Multiple Choice
All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the “new immigrants” of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants
practiced different religions
had different languages and cultures
were willing to work for lower wages than were native-born workers
were not familiar with the United States political system
dominate the professions of law, medicine, and engineering
- 13. Multiple Choice
Settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT
establishing day nurseries for working mothers
offering literacy and language classes for immigrants
publishing reports on deplorable housing conditions
teaching classes on cooking and dressmaking
organizing women workers into labor unions
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration in the 1840s and 1850s?
More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s sought factory work than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.
More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.
Immigration was a main source of agricultural labor in the Southern states during the 1840s and 1850s, but it was not between 1865 and 1895.
Immigration from China was greater than immigration from central Europe in the 1840s and 1850s as compared to the period between 1865 and 1895.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a long-term development that contributed to the change in Chinese immigration depicted in the graph between 1875 and 1885 ?
Chinese laborers competed with White laborers for jobs and mineral wealth during the 1850s and 1860s.
Chinese recruits were used to replace White soldiers in the Union army during the Civil War.
Chinese immigrants filled most of the factory jobs created during the market revolution.
Chinese farmers settled American Indian lands taken by the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.
- 16. Poll
The following refers to a story about an interaction with a Trump administration official:
On Tuesday, Mr Cuccinelli was asked by NPR whether the 1883 poem titled The New Colossus at the Statue of Liberty still applied.
"Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus's words etched on the Statue of Liberty, 'Give me your tired, give me your poor,' are also a part of the American ethos?" asked NPR's Rachel Martin.
Ken Cuccinelli, the acting head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services
"They certainly are," Mr Cuccinelli responded. "Give me your tired and your poor - who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."
Does this compare or contrast with treatment of immigrants during the Gilded Age?
Similar: Be prepared to explain why
Different: Be prepared to explain why
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