Immigration & Migration in the Gilded Age (College Board AP® US History): Flashcards
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Why did Europeans immigrate to the US in the Gilded Age?
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Why did Europeans immigrate to the US in the Gilded Age?
They left because of overcrowding at home, to escape poverty, for jobs in booming industries, and to flee religious persecution, especially Jews from Eastern Europe.
How did immigration affect Gilded Age cities?
It brought rapid population growth in large cities, a diverse workforce, and cultural diversity, including rising Jewish and Catholic populations.
What kinds of jobs did many immigrants do?
Many immigrants worked as unskilled laborers in factories, railroads, and mines.
What drew Chinese immigrants to the United States during the California Gold Rush era?
Chinese immigrants were drawn by employment opportunities, especially in the railroad industry.
True or False?
Most Chinese immigrants to the United States were skilled workers.
False.
Most Chinese immigrants were unskilled, but they played an essential role in America's industrial expansion, including as labor for the transcontinental railroad under harsh conditions.
Define ethnic enclave.
An ethnic enclave is a region within a city with a high concentration of a specific ethnic group.
How did ethnic enclaves help immigrants preserve their cultural identity?
Immigrants shared their culture, religion, language, foods, and festivals, and set up ethnic grocery stores, places of worship, and banks.
Why did wealthy and middle-class families move to the suburbs?
They moved for more space and cleaner living conditions.
Define tenement.
A tenement was a poorly constructed, overcrowded city building with inadequate sanitation and ventilation, where poorer populations lived.
Define Exoduster Movement.
The Exoduster Movement was a mass migration of African Americans out of the South to the West after Reconstruction.
Why did the Exodusters leave the South?
They sought jobs and the chance to own land and farms, and wanted to escape racial violence, Jim Crow laws, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Why did many Exoduster farmers fail?
They faced the high cost of farming, a lack of farming experience, and unsuitable land.
Most Exodusters ended up taking jobs as domestic or labor in cities.
Most Exodusters ended up taking jobs as domestic or unskilled labor in cities.
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