Political Machines — Unit test Answers

What is one way that city landscapes changed in the beginning of the twentieth century?

Read the paragraph.[1] By the end of the 1800s, there was a change in the nature of the immigrants coming to the United States. [2] Immigration from Northern Europe—England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia—declined, while immigration from Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary grew. [3] In fact, between 1900 and 1910, more than three-fourths of all immigrants came from these three countries. [4] Unfortunately, these countries were far removed from England, the home of our founders, and the immigrants who came from them had a hard time adjusting to life in their new country.Which sentence in the paragraph does not include facts to support the main ideas of the paragraph?

What is one similarity between Ellis Island and Angel Island?

At the turn of the twentieth century, a sweatshop was

The explosion of European immigration into the United States in the late 1800s can best be explained by

According to the United States' 1907 Gentleman’s Agreement with Japan,

In the early 1900s, doctors and lawyers usually belonged to which group?

Read the passage from History of the United States, by Charles and Mary Beard.As necessary to mechanical industry as steel and steam power was the great market, spread over a wide and diversified area and knit together by efficient means of transportation. This service was supplied to industry by the steamship, which began its career on the Hudson in 1807; by the canals, of which the Erie, opened in 1825, was the most noteworthy; and by the railways, which came into practical operation about 1830.With sure instinct Eastern manufacturer reached out for the markets of the Northwest territory where free farmers were annually producing staggering crops of corn, wheat, bacon, and wool. The two great canal systems — the Erie, connecting New York City with the waterways of the Great Lakes and the Pennsylvania chain, which linked Philadelphia with the headwaters of the Ohio — gradually turned the tide of trade from New Orleans to the Eastern seaboard.In a summary of this passage, which of the following could support a central trend?

Which of the following best describes nativists' views on Chinatowns?