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What did governments do to try to improve city sanitation in the late 1800s? Built water purification systems. How frequently did immigration officials at Ellis Island reject new arrivals? Rarely as records show less then 2% of arrivials were not allowed into country. The "Old immigrants" who arrived in America during the 1800s were from northern Europe. What was the main cause of pollution in Pittsburg in the late 1800s? Smoke from steel mills. Because the transition into American culture was often difficult, many immigrant families moved into neighboorhoods with people from the same country. Many middle-class Americans who could afford it moved from cities to residential neighborhoods outside of downtown known as suburbs. Most immigrants who believed that the United States should not allow so many immigrants into the country were called nativists. New immigrants were often forced to take low-paying industrial jobs because they lacked the skills needed to obtain higher-paying jobs True. The Chinese Exculusion Act marked the first time all members of a particular nationality were banned from entering the United States True. Most of the victims of diseases such as cholera, influenza, and tuberculosis in the cities were elderly false. Crime was one of the effects of the overcrowded and unhealthy conditions of the city neighborhoods in the late 1800s True. Florence Kelley helped pass laws that limited women's working hours and prevented child labor true. During the 1800s, the lack of jobs adequate housing in the city forced hundreds of immigrants to look for employment in the countryside False. The efforts of nativists in the United States stopped immigrants from southern and eastern Europe from entering the country in the late 1800s.