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E - Ch. 14

Test Description: Immigration and Reform movements

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Which is NOT a result of the education reform movements?

ABuilt new schools BExtended the school year CSchools were no longer segregated DRaised teachers pay and opened colleges to train teachers

2) What was the reasons that immigrant children worked alongside their parents in factories?

AThere was nobody to watch the children while parents worked. BThey worked to help make the money to survive. CThe children enjoyed working with their parents. DThere was nothing else for them to do during the day.

3) How did escaped slaves usually travel?

AOnly in bad weather, when no one else would be out BHidden in wagons under straw COnly in the winter DTravel by night, hide by day

4) Which of these is NOT a push factor that led immigrants to leave their home country?

AUnjust government BAbundance of food CPoverty DReligious persecution

5) Which of these is NOT pull factor that led immigrants to want to settle in America?

ANew Jobs BReligious freedom CDemocratic government DUnsanitary health regulations

6) Which of the following would most likely have supported a law prohibiting immigrants from holding public office?

AAn antisuffragist BAn immigrant CAn abolitionist DA nativist

7) How did William Lloyd Garrison spread the abolitionist message in the U.S.?

AHe founded and ran an anti slavery newspaper BHe wrote novels and essays about slavery CHe started the American Colonization Society DHe traveled around the country giving lectures

8) Which of these was NOT a problem faced by cities in the mid 1800's?

ALimited public transportation BA lack of available housing CHigh Crime rates DA lack of public health regulations

9) A potato famine in Europe brought a large number of which ethnic immigrants to the U.S.?

AIrish BProtestant CJewish DGerman

10) Many immigrants lived in dirty, overcrowded, and unsafe buildings known by which of the following terms?

ADuplex BTownhomes CTenements DCondos

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