Traditionally, immigrants had come to America for economic opportunity and

Travel accommodations for most immigrants to the United States

Rural-to-urban migration was primarily motivated by

Which invention made the building and use of skyscrapers feasible?

Which of these factors pulled immigrants to the United States?

At processing stations, officials met with immigrants to determine their medical condition and

Which of the following provided Americanization programs for new immigrants?

Directions: Use the quotation to answer the following questions.

“The foreigner coming to these shores is more impressed at first by our skyscrapers.... In the daylight they are ugly.... But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul than anything man has dreamed since the Arabian nights.”

In this quote, Twain is describing

The first reliable streetcars were powered by

What was one of the dangers of living in a tenement?

What journalist called attention to the living conditions of tenement-dwellers?

Whites accused Chinese workers on the West Coast of

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Unlike African American men, women in the late 1800s

What other issues did cartoonists like Joseph Keppler portray through their illustrations?

What did Du Bois view as the key to “everything”?

Read the quotation below. Then, on a separate sheet of paper, answer the question that follows.

“[This book] deals with an entirely ideal state of society; and the chief embarrassment of the writers in this realm of the imagination has been the want of illustrative examples. In a State where there is no fever of speculation, no inflamed desire for sudden wealth, where the poor are all simple-minded and contented, and the rich are all honest and generous, where society is in a condition of primitive purity and politics is the occupation of only the capable and the patriotic, there are necessarily no materials for such a history as we have constructed out of an ideal commonwealth.”
                  —Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, 1873

Which Gilded Age President was known for his integrity?

In response to the Granger movement,

The Populist Party lost power in large part as a result of

The Coinage Act of 1873 caused protest by

Which of the following encouraged President Arthur to pursue civil service reform?

To what group of people did Populism primarily appeal?

Which of the following describes Thomas Nast?

The spoils system made political parties more powerful by

In the late 1800s, organization among farmers resulted in

What did political cartoonist Thomas Nast work to expose?

What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle describe?

Which reform resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

Progressive women reformers worked to

Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?

Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?

The NWP and the NAWSA primarily differed in their

Which group formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend itself against verbal attacks and false statements?

Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.

Local Union Catechism

Q. What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
A. It is an organization of Christian women banded together for the protection of the hoe, the abolition o the liquor traffic and the triumph of Christ’s golden rule in custom and law.

Q. How can a women become a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
A. By signing the pledge and paying yearly dues.

Q. What is the pledge?
A. Pledge--“I hearby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented, and malt liquors, including wine, beer, and cider,and to employ all proper means to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.”

Q. What are the membership dues?
A. One dollar per year.

Q. To whom should dues be paid?
A. To the treasurer of the local union...
      --Handbook for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1920

For what purpose was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed?

The efforts of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union eventually led to which change?

The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of which natural resource?

Under President William Howard Taft, the federal government

What fields did Progressives aim to reform?

Why did minority groups receive limited benefits from Progressivism?

Progressives that promoted Americanization efforts