Political Machines — Unit test Answers

How was the rise of the civil service related to President Garfield’s assassination?

During the 1800s, nativists promoted the idea that immigrants contributed to unemployment by

Read what President Garfield said when he called for an investigation of New York's political machine. “Go ahead regardless of where or whom you hit.” The president was instructing the investigation team to:

Which statement describes a cultural opportunity that became available as cities grew in the late 1800s?

What was an effect of urbanization?

Look at the circle graphs, which describe the foreign-born (immigrant) population in the US in 1880 and 1910.Based on these graphs, what new trend in immigration made the US population more diverse by 1910?

As city populations increased in the early 1900s, cities

The majority of immigrants and rural migrants who moved to American cities at the turn of the twentieth century became part of the

Republican President James Garfield was opposed to

Look at the graphic below.Which phrase best fits in the blank box?

Which statement best summarizes the working lives of middle-class women by 1900?

In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act

By 1900, about 100,000 immigrants living in the United States were from

Which phrase best describes New York City’s Little Italy?

Which sentence best compares the employment opportunities between farms and cities in the late 1800s?

Which of these statements best accounts for Chinese immigration to the United States in the late 1800s?

How did the efforts of Jane Addams differ from the efforts of Lincoln Steffens?

What was a direct result of landlords not maintaining their tenements during the early 1900s?

Look at the chart.YearApproximate Number of Settlement Houses in the US19001001910400Which conclusion does the chart support?