Urbanization and Urban Poverty

2. Immigrants thought this group could have a better life, even if they did not
6. __________ groups provided badly needed help because the government was slow to respond
7. "Slum disease" due to the cramped living conditions of the tenements
9. This state had thousands of Chinese immigrants, going as far back as the Gold Rush in 1849
12. City ___________ offered classes day and night, providing training in English, citizenship, nutrition, and job skills
14. Tall, narrow wooden buildings with terrible conditions that most immigrants had to live in
17. the shift from rural areas to cities in the areas of economics, population, and industry
18. New wave of immigrants that came were not from western European countries, but ____________ European countries
20. Suffered from a lack of basic services
21. Largest immigrant group
22. Second largest immigrant group
23. Running __________ helped to eliminate epidemics like cholera and yellow fever

1. In 1900, one out of every 12 Americans lived in New York, ______________, or Philadelphia
3. The skill that most immigrants had when they arrived to the US
4. A _____________ house was a place that provided assistance to poor and immigrant residents
5. This group of people was prevented from immigrating to the United States until 1943
8. Transportation between cities and suburbs was made quick, easy, and convenient because of...
10. Immigrants moved to cities in search of new ___________________
11. Grew so rapidly in the late 1800s due to arrival of immigrants in record numbers
13. The main form of transportation in American cities beginning in the 1880s
15. Areas on the edges of cities that are mostly residential
16. ___________ people moved away from the crowded cities to the countryside where they could build larger homes
19. Desperate to escape the ___________ of their homelands, 9 million immigrants made their way to the US between 1880 and 1900