U.S. History - Unit 6 (SSUSH11cd) Question Preview (ID: 60579)


Key Inventions Of The 19th Century AND The Influence Of Immigration. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

In 1832, Samuel Morse invented:
a) the telegraph
b) the telephone
c) the electric light bulb
d) the automobile

Morse Code was used to:
a) help communicate on the telegraph
b) produce steel in large quantities
c) build the Transcontinental Railroad
d) process immigrants on Ellis Island

The telegraph was extensively used during:
a) the Civil War
b) the War of 1812
c) the American Revolution
d) ####

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented:
a) the telephone
b) the telegraph
c) the Bessemer process
d) the electric light bulb

Thomas Edison was the inventor of:
a) the electric light bulb
b) the telephone
c) the telegraph
d) the Gatling gun

Prior to the 1880s, most immigrants to the U.S. arrived from:
a) northern and western Europe
b) southern and eastern Europe
c) sub-Saharan Africa
d) Japan

Beginning in the 1880s, most immigrants to the U.S. were from:
a) southern and eastern Europe
b) the United Kingdom and France
c) northern Africa
d) Central and South America

A major immigration station, located in New York Harbor, was:
a) Ellis Island
b) Angel Island
c) Castle Garden
d) ####

A large immigration station, found in San Francisco Bay, was called:
a) Angel Island
b) Ellis Island
c) Santa Catalina Island
d) ####

At the Angel Island Immigration Station, there was much discrimination shown against:
a) the Chinese immigrants
b) the European immigrants
c) the African immigrants
d) the South American immigrants

Immigration to the U.S. after the 1880s...
a) had significant impacts on the U.S.
b) led to a decrease in the population of the U.S.
c) had no lasting impacts on the U.S.
d) ####

Conditions on Angel Island, as compared to Ellis Island, were:
a) worse for immigrants
b) the same for immigrants
c) better for immigrants
d) ####

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