Quiz: Chapter 25

The "New Immigrants" who arrived in growing numbers after 1880 came mostly from:

• a. Southern and eastern Europe
• b. Northern and western Europe
• c. Latin America
• d. Canada

Ellis Island, which opened in 1892, processed immigrants arriving in:

• a. New York Harbor
• b. San Francisco Bay
• c. Boston Harbor
• d. New Orleans

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882:

• a. Barred nearly all Chinese immigration to the U.S.
• b. Granted Chinese immigrants automatic citizenship
• c. Encouraged Chinese immigration to the West
• d. Applied only to Chinese women

Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago was an example of a:

• a. Political machine
• b. Settlement house
• c. Labor union hall
• d. Land-grant college

Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives" exposed:

• a. Squalid tenement conditions in New York City
• b. Corruption in the Standard Oil trust
• c. Conditions on western cattle ranches
• d. Corruption in the Grant administration

The Social Gospel movement called on churches to:

• a. Apply Christian ethics to social problems like poverty
• b. Avoid all involvement in social issues
• c. Support immigration restriction
• d. Endorse Social Darwinism

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise speech (1895) urged Black Americans to:

• a. Focus on vocational education and economic self-help
• b. Immediately demand full political equality
• c. Migrate en masse to Africa
• d. Boycott all southern businesses

W.E.B. Du Bois differed from Booker T. Washington by:

• a. Demanding immediate civil rights and higher education for talented Black leaders
• b. Rejecting all forms of education
• c. Supporting the American Protective Association
• d. Opposing the NAACP

The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson upheld:

• a. Racial segregation under "separate but equal"
• b. Chinese exclusion
• c. Federal antitrust power
• d. Women's suffrage

American nativists in this era were especially hostile toward New Immigrants because of their:

• a. Unfamiliar languages, customs, and predominantly Catholic or Jewish faiths
• b. Wealth and political power
• c. Refusal to work in factories
• d. Support for prohibition

Political machines like New York's Tammany Hall maintained power chiefly by:

• a. Trading jobs and favors for votes and loyalty
• b. Strict civil service examinations
• c. Federal antitrust enforcement
• d. Abolishing immigration entirely

Which author's realist fiction captured authentic American speech and satirized the era's corruption?

• a. Mark Twain
• b. Andrew Carnegie
• c. Jacob Riis
• d. William Graham Sumner