SS mod 5

Question 1

immigrants from northern Europe

Answer 1

old immigrants

Question 2

immigrants from southern and eastern Europe

Answer 2

new immigrants

Question 3

an area below a ship’s deck where steering mechanisms were located

Answer 3

steerage

Question 4

aid organizations that offered immigrants help

Answer 4

benevolent societies

Question 5

poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings

Answer 5

tenements

Question 6

small shops with long hours and hot, unhealthy working conditions

Answer 6

sweatshops

Question 7

law that banned new immigrants to the United States from China for 10 years

Answer 7

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 8

public transportation designed to move many people

Answer 8

mass transit

Question 9

residential neighborhoods

Answer 9

suburbs

Question 10

leisure and cultural activities shared by many people

Answer 10

mass culture

Question 11

added color comic to his New York World newspaper and more people started buying it

Answer 11

Joseph Pulitzer

Question 12

publisher of the New York Journal

Answer 12

William Randolph Hearst

Question 13

giant retail shops

Answer 13

department stores

Question 14

landscape architect who became nationally famous, designed Central Park, Prospect Park, and many more state and national parks

Answer 14

Frederick Law Olmsted

Question 15

journalist and photographer who became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements

Answer 15

Jacob Riis

Question 16

neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities

Answer 16

settlement houses

Question 17

co-founder of the Hull House

Answer 17

Jane Addams

Question 17

families would adopt American beliefs and aspects of American culture

Answer 17

assimilation

Question 18

one of the most famous settlement houses of the period

Answer 18

Hull House

Question 18

important reformer of the Hull House

Answer 18

Florence kelley