Life at the Turn of the Century: Chapter 15
Name: ___________________________________________________ Period: _____
1. As you read about people who immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, write notes to answer the questions below.
Immigrants
from….
What were some of
the countries they
came from?
What reasons did
they often have
for coming to the
U.S.?
Where did they often
enter the U.S.?
1. Southern and
Eastern Europe
o Ellis Island
o Angel Island
o Southeastern
U.S.
o Southwestern
U.S.
2. Asia
o Ellis Island
o Angel Island
o Southeastern
U.S.
o Southwestern
U.S.
3. Caribbean
Islands and
Central
America
o Ellis Island
o Angel Island
o Southeastern
U.S.
o Southwestern
U.S.
2. In each box below, identify important differences that tended to exist between the “Old
Immigrants” and the “New Immigrants”.
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
3. Who was Frederick Law Olmstead and why was he important?
4. What is conspicuous consumption?
5. How did the settlement house movement work to improve living conditions for
immigrants and poor Americans?
6. Write T in the blank if the statement is true. If it is false, write F in the blank and then
write to corrected statement on the line below.
____ 1. As part of the Gentleman’s Agreement, China’s government agreed to limit
immigration of unskilled workers to the United States.
________________________________________________________________________
____ 2. Settlement houses, multifamily urban dwellings, were often overcrowded and
unsanitary.
________________________________________________________________________
____ 3. The Pendleton Civil Service Act required the appointments to federal jobs be
based in a merit system.
________________________________________________________________________
____ 4. Grover Cleveland, who won the presidency in 1884, supported lower tariffs.
________________________________________________________________________
7. Write a sentence using all of the following words:
 political machine
 graft
 Boss Tweed
 Patronage
8. Why was it called “The Gilded Age?”
9. Chose the word that most accurately completes the sentences below.
 Thomas Nast
 business
 Roscoe Conkling
 Kickbacks
 immigrants
 Chester Arthur
 Grover Cleveland
 farming
 African Americans
a. Elected president in 1884 and again in 1892, ___________________________ was the
only president to serve two terms.
b. ____________________________ was the political cartoonist who helped arouse
public outrage against the Tweed Ring.
c. Political machines won loyal support from ___________________________ for
helping them find housing and jobs.
d. Many political machines enriched themselves with _____________, or illegal
payments for their services.
e. The _________________ community favored high tariffs because they protected
domestic industries from foreign competition.
10. Explain the rise of the Populist Party.
11. Who were the most prominent black leaders of the period, and how did their views
differ?
12. Explain Plessy v. Ferguson.