- Chapter 10.3 Questions
The Rise of the Cities
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- DIRECTIONS:
Answer the following questions on a blank piece of note book paper.
Each question is worth 1 point.
Write your name, date and class period on each page.
When you are done, work on your vocab list, workbook or map .
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- Immigration form Europe
- ____________1. As many women refused to go to work for lower wages, they
were replaced by whom?
- ____________12. Where did most of the immigrants come from primarily what
countries?
- ____________13. What did the immigrants call or consider the U.S.?
- ____________14. Was there opposition to unlimited immigration?
- ____________15. What did the nativist believe about immigrants?
- ____________16. Protestant Americans were hostile to whom?
- ____________17. Most Irish Catholics fled Ireland due to what factor?
- ____________18. List some of the characteristics of the Irish that
disturbed the average American.
- ____________19. What was considered a strange tendency for the Catholic
Clergy?
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- City Life in America
- ____________20. Most of the European immigration between 1820-1840 settled
where?
- ____________21. Eastern cities were mainly composed of what type of
commerce?
- ____________22. Cities in the west were characterized as what kind of
cities?
- ____________23. Urban frontiers acted specifically as what for settlers?
- ____________24. Cities underwent “growing pains” like what factor
related to streets?
- ____________25. What usually led up to epidemics?
- ____________26. Many people believed that what was a punishment for
poverty?
- ____________27. Did many cities have police or fire protection?
- ____________28. How were fires put out during these times?
- ____________29. By 1790, what
qualified cities to become
urban centers?
- ____________30. Was there a great turnover in and out of the city
populations?
- ____________31. What was the leading cause of slums in a city?
- ____________32. Buildings with several families living together were
referred to as what?
- ____________33. Who championed the cause for fair housing during these
times?
- ____________34. Cities saw public schools as what out of many functions?
- ____________35. Despite problems, did cities remain the cultural centers
of American Life?
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