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Immigration/Progressive Era Study Guide
Now’s the time to remember everything we learned…
I.
Immigration
1. List the four reasons why immigrants moved to the United States (HEAR).
Hope for better opportunities, escape oppressive government, adventure, and religious
freedom
2. Identify 3 push factors and 3 pull factors.
Pull – religious freedom, equality, better opportunities.
Push – political persecution, poverty, famine, and overpopulation
3. What were the names of the two immigration centers in the United States? What group of
immigrants arrived at each center?
Ellis Island - Europeans
Angel Island - Asians
4. What symbol of hope greeted immigrants in New York Harbor?
Statue of Liberty
5. What challenges did immigrants face once in the country?
Finding a job, finding a home, overcrowded neighborhoods, low wages, long work hours,
unsafe living and working conditions.
6. Describe a tenement apartment.
Overcrowded, little light, unsanitary
7. Where did immigrants move in order to live with people who were ethnically similar?
Ghettos
8. What is nativism?
Belief that native born Americans are superior and fear of immigrants taking jobs from native
born Americans.
9. Name three laws passed by the United States government that limited immigration. Explain
each one.
Chinese Exclusion Act – banned Chinese immigrants for 10 years and from US citizenship
Gentleman’s Agreement - 1907, the Japanese agreed to limit the number of immigrants to the
US, while the US pledged fair treatment of Japanese Americans already in the US
Immigration Act of 1917 – required all immigrants to be able to read and write in some
language.
10. Define assimilation.
the process by which new immigrants blended into American society
11. List four reasons cities grew.
Movement of Americans from rural (farm) to urban (city) areas for job opportunities, Industries
often located near population centers, Inventions helped cities and industry grow, Immigration
from other countries
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II.
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Progressive Era
1. Explain the Gilded Age.
The period that suggested both the showy wealth of the late 1800s and the terrible poverty
that lay underneath
2. Define Muckrakers.
Investigators that exposed problems
3. Name two muckrakers AND the titles of their work.
Upton Sinclair – The Jungle/ Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Live
4. What are labor unions? Name the most famous labor union.
Labor Unions - organizations that brings together workers in the same job for better wages
and working conditions.
American Federation of Labor
5. What did labor unions fight for? (3 things)
To improve working hours (less hours), Higher wages, Better working conditions
6. Where was the Homestead Strike? What was the outcome?
Homestead, PA (Pittsburgh). Outcome – American support for unions dropped because many
felt unions were violent
7. Who was the first president to use the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Theodore Roosevelt
8. What is a settlement house? Name the most famous settlement house and the founder.
Housing that provided medical care, playgrounds, nurseries, and libraries.
First settlement house = Hull House/ Jane Addams
9. What does suffrage mean?
Right to vote
10. What two women worked for women’s suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11. What is the 18th amendment?
Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages
12. What is the 19th amendment?
Women’s right to vote
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III.
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True or False
1. FALSE - Immigration to the United States led to overcrowded cities, higher wages for workers,
and political corruption
2. TRUE - An immigrant entering the United States in the early 1900s was usually poor, unskilled,
and knew little English.
3. TRUE - Immigration slowed down between 1921 and 1960.
4. TRUE - As a result of the Progressive Era, the work day was shortened.
5. FALSE - As a result of the Progressive Era, workers were paid less.
6. TRUE - As a result of the Progressive Era, child labor laws banned children from working.
7. FALSE - As a result of the Progressive Era, Congress made unions illegal.
8. TRUE - As a result of the Progressive Era, Congress made monopolies illegal.
Draw a picture that shows at least 3 problems in America that ultimately led to change in the
Progressive Era.