The new American Immigrant

1. Which was NOT a reason why native-born Americans encouraged Americanization? 

•  A. Native-born Americans wanted to assimilate people from other cultures into the dominant culture
• *B. Native-born Americans wanted the immigrants to practice their customs
•  C. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants skills needed for citizenship
• D. Native-born Americans wanted to teach new immigrants cooking skills

2. What were cities most like for the new immigrants coming to America? 

•  A. Clean and welcoming
•  B. Healthy, with clean water
• *C. Immigrants would most likely have had to dodge horse manure
•  D. Plenty of single-family homes

3. What would best describe the cities to a new immigrant? 

• *A. Pickpockets and thieves were plenty
• B. Plenty of police harassing new immigrants
• C. All the clean water was dedicated to fighting fires
• D. Running water and plumbing worked 60% of the time

4. Why did immigrants move to the cities in the first place? 

• A. Plenty of work in the factories
• B. Cheap housing
• C. Plenty of room in tenements
• *D. A & B only

5. People moved from the farms to the cities because ? 

• A. Less segregation and discrimination in the cities
• *B. Farming technology improved
• C. Wood plows were being made in the cities
• D. None of the above