1. IMMIGRATION / URBANIZATION TEST REVIEW
TEST TOMORROW!!!

2. Where did immigrants entering the west coast after 1910 have to pass through?
ANSWER  ANGEL ISLAND

3. What is conspicuous consumption?
ANSWER  SPENDING ONE’S WEALTH FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF SHOWING HOW MUCH WEALTH ONE HAS

4. ANSWER  SETTLEMENT HOUSES
What were community centers called that were set up to help immigrants and the poor class?
ANSWER  SETTLEMENT HOUSES

5. What were the 2 reasons skyscrapers were able to be built?
ANSWER  Bessemer process made steel cheaper; improvements to the elevator safety

6. What characterized “Old” Immigrants?
ANSWER  IMMIGRANTS WHO CAME FROM NORTHERN & WESTERN EUROPE BEFORE 1890

7. What was the Gospel of Wealth?
ANSWER  THE THEORY THAT THE WEALTHY HAD RESPONSIBILITIES TO USE THEIR WEALTH AND RICHES TO AID THE POOR AND SOCIETY

8. Who were nativists and how did they feel about immigrants?
ANSWER  THEY WERE NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS WO STRONGLY DISLIKED IMMIGRANTS AND BLAMMED THEM FOR THE PROBLEMS IN SOCIETY

9. What sport was considered America’s pastime?
ANSWER  BASEBALL

10. Describe tenements.
ANSWER  THEY WERE DARK, DISMAL, MULTIFAMILY APARTMENTS IN VERY DIRTY PARTS OF THE CITY

11. What were push and pull factors and give 1 example for each?
ANSWER  Push factors were factors that influenced immigrants to leave their country of origin; Pull factors were factors that attracted immigrants to come to the U.S.

12. What is philanthropy?
ANSWER  DONATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY IN ORDER TO HELP SOCIETY (IT IS NOT A HAND OUT BUT RATHER HELPS PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES)

13. What was chain migration?
ANSWER  THE TENDENCY FOR IMMIGRANTS TO SETTLE AROUND PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN ETHNICITY & NATIONAL DECENT

14. What is the belief of Social Darwinism?
ANSWER  THE BELIEF THAT LIFE IS A STRUGGLE AND ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE (SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST). THE RICH INDUSTRIALISTS USED THIS BELIEF TO JUSTIFY THEIR BUSINESS PRACTICES