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Name
Class
Date
IMMIGRATION AND URBANIZATION
Section 2 Quiz
A.
Key Terms and People
Directions: From Column II below, choose the term that best fits each description.
Column I
Column II
1. person who moved from an agricultural
area to an urban area
2. famous designer of parks
3. increase in the number and populations
of cities
4. inexpensive and efficient public system
for moving people
a. urbanization
b. rural-to-urban
migrant
c. mass transit
d. suburbs
e. Frederick Law
Olmsted
f. tenement
5. neighborhood on the outskirts of a city
6. multifamily housing that was often
overcrowded
B.
Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank.
7. The first reliable streetcars were powered by
a. electricity.
c. animals.
b. coal.
d. gasoline.
8. Most Midwestern cities were established near
a. mountains.
b. water.
c. skyscrapers.
d. manufacturing plants.
9. Zoning laws were designed primarily to
a. encourage growth of heavy industry.
b. separate functions within a city.
c. create immigrant ghettoes.
d. protect water from pollutants.
10. Even though unlit city streets were dangerous,
a. most city planners did nothing about it.
b. professional police officers refused to patrol them.
c. factory workers had to travel to and from work in the dark.
d. city governments rejected electric streetlights.
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