Across
- 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
Down
- 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