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Cities and a Growing Population

Quiz by Joe Pray

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12 questions
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  • Q1
    What happened to cities when there wasn't enough housing for newcomers?
    People went to Jail
    Homelessness
    Overcrowding
    More Slaves
    30s
  • Q2
    What were people called that came from a foreign country and increased the population of the US in the 1800s?
    foreigners
    emigrants
    enslaved people
    immigrants
    30s
  • Q3
    What did Horace Mann feel that taxes should help pay for?
    food
    public education
    free slaves
    housing
    30s
  • Q4
    In many states, it was against the law to teach these people to read and write?
    slaves
    30s
  • Q5
    With new immigrants and their cultures that they brought with them, what began to grow more in the US?
    slaves
    government
    diversity
    public education
    30s
  • Q6
    What political group tried to limit immigration?
    Whig Party
    Republicans
    American Party
    Democrats
    30s
  • Q7
    What is negative reaction to more new immigrants moving to the US?
    nativism
    diversity
    nationalism
    racism
    30s
  • Q8
    Where did many of the new immigrants to the US work?
    schools
    service industry
    farms
    factories
    30s
  • Q9
    More immigrants meant more people to work in factories.
    Negative
    Positive
    30s
  • Q10
    Many immigrants meant that cities were overcrowded.
    Negative
    Positive
    30s
  • Q11
    With new immigrants there was an increase in the diversity of the US.
    Positive
    Negative
    30s
  • Q12
    The American Party tried to limit the number of immigrants to the US.
    Negative
    Positive
    30s

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