APUSH- Chapter 18 -Amsco Practice
Exam and All Correct Answers.
causes of immigration - Answer 1. poverty drove farmers out of lands bc of politics +
advancing farm machines
2. overcrowding + joblessness in cities bc of population booms
3. religious persecutions
old immigrants - Answer From British Isles + Western Europe. Mainly Irish + Germans
-high literacy rates + occupational skills
new immigrants - Answer Southern + Eastern Europeans. Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks,
Poles + Russians
-low literacy rates + peasants
Statue of Liberty - Answer built by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, became beacon of hope for
poor immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - Answer placed a ban on all new immigrants from China
Immigration Act of 1882 - Answer prohibited immigration of criminals, paupers and the
insane. So those people would not have to be taken care of by the country. NO FREELOADERS
Contract Labor Act of 1885 - Answer restricting temporary workers to protect American
workers
American Protective Association - Answer nativist society against Roman Catholics
Ellis Island 1892 - Answer opened at immigration center where people had to have medical
exams + pay a 50 cent tax before entering the US
melting pot vs. cultural diversity - Answer melting pot implies that all people in America are
the same (racist assimilation) while cultural diversity implies that US is a mix of many people
from different places with acceptance among them
, causes of migration - Answer poverty, overcrowding, persecution, economic opportunities,
jobs, and cheap passage we all causes for _______
streetcar cities - Answer People lived in residences many miles from their jobs and and
commuted to work on horse-drawn streetcars.
created suburbia
steel-framed buildings - Answer allowed building of skyscrapers and expansion of buildings
in crowded cities , by going upwards not out
tenements, poverty - Answer slums and tenements could cram more than 4,000 people in
one city block. NYC passes law requiring each bedroom a window, but landlords responded with
"dumbbell tenements" with the center of the building a window.
ethnic neighborhoods - Answer many immigrants wanted to live with people of the same
language, race, culture, and religion so they settled in these sometimes called ghettos
residential suburbs - Answer the development of streetcar cites allowed people to get out of
the crowded , unsafe cities and into these
political machines , "boss" - Answer were political parties under control of tightly organized
groups of most commonly corrupt leaders. Each had its own boss (top politician) who gave
orders to the rank + file and gave jobs in turn for support
Tammany Hall - Answer Political machine in New York, headed by Boss Tweed. That
exchanged social services in exchange for votes. Boss Tweed stole about 200 million dollars
from NYC tax payers
urban reformers - Answer people who worked to improve the standards of living for the
poor through the means of education, health , economic, and sanitary means
"City Beautiful" movement - Answer grand plans in the 1890's to remake US cities w/ tree
lined streets, public parks, + public cultural attractions
Henry George - Answer wrote Progress and Poverty, which told readers to look more
critically @ the effects of laissez-faire economics (attention to wealth inequalities) and proposed
to solve poverty by replacing all taxes w/ a single land tax
Edward Bellamy - Answer wrote Looking Backward, 2000-1887 in 1888. Envisioned future w/
a society that worked together + had eliminate poverty, greed, + crimes
Exam and All Correct Answers.
causes of immigration - Answer 1. poverty drove farmers out of lands bc of politics +
advancing farm machines
2. overcrowding + joblessness in cities bc of population booms
3. religious persecutions
old immigrants - Answer From British Isles + Western Europe. Mainly Irish + Germans
-high literacy rates + occupational skills
new immigrants - Answer Southern + Eastern Europeans. Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks,
Poles + Russians
-low literacy rates + peasants
Statue of Liberty - Answer built by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, became beacon of hope for
poor immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - Answer placed a ban on all new immigrants from China
Immigration Act of 1882 - Answer prohibited immigration of criminals, paupers and the
insane. So those people would not have to be taken care of by the country. NO FREELOADERS
Contract Labor Act of 1885 - Answer restricting temporary workers to protect American
workers
American Protective Association - Answer nativist society against Roman Catholics
Ellis Island 1892 - Answer opened at immigration center where people had to have medical
exams + pay a 50 cent tax before entering the US
melting pot vs. cultural diversity - Answer melting pot implies that all people in America are
the same (racist assimilation) while cultural diversity implies that US is a mix of many people
from different places with acceptance among them
, causes of migration - Answer poverty, overcrowding, persecution, economic opportunities,
jobs, and cheap passage we all causes for _______
streetcar cities - Answer People lived in residences many miles from their jobs and and
commuted to work on horse-drawn streetcars.
created suburbia
steel-framed buildings - Answer allowed building of skyscrapers and expansion of buildings
in crowded cities , by going upwards not out
tenements, poverty - Answer slums and tenements could cram more than 4,000 people in
one city block. NYC passes law requiring each bedroom a window, but landlords responded with
"dumbbell tenements" with the center of the building a window.
ethnic neighborhoods - Answer many immigrants wanted to live with people of the same
language, race, culture, and religion so they settled in these sometimes called ghettos
residential suburbs - Answer the development of streetcar cites allowed people to get out of
the crowded , unsafe cities and into these
political machines , "boss" - Answer were political parties under control of tightly organized
groups of most commonly corrupt leaders. Each had its own boss (top politician) who gave
orders to the rank + file and gave jobs in turn for support
Tammany Hall - Answer Political machine in New York, headed by Boss Tweed. That
exchanged social services in exchange for votes. Boss Tweed stole about 200 million dollars
from NYC tax payers
urban reformers - Answer people who worked to improve the standards of living for the
poor through the means of education, health , economic, and sanitary means
"City Beautiful" movement - Answer grand plans in the 1890's to remake US cities w/ tree
lined streets, public parks, + public cultural attractions
Henry George - Answer wrote Progress and Poverty, which told readers to look more
critically @ the effects of laissez-faire economics (attention to wealth inequalities) and proposed
to solve poverty by replacing all taxes w/ a single land tax
Edward Bellamy - Answer wrote Looking Backward, 2000-1887 in 1888. Envisioned future w/
a society that worked together + had eliminate poverty, greed, + crimes
