AP US History: Chapter 25 Review

Match each of these late-nineteenth-century writers with the theme of he work. (Lewis Wallace-A, Horatio Alger-B, Henry James-C, William Dean Howells-D)

A- anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures B- success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work C- psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women. D- contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism

The public library movement across America was greatly aided by the generous financial support from

Andrew Carnegie.

Which of the following was not among the major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era?

Harvard University

Which of the following prominent post-Civil War writers did not reflect the increased attention to social problems by those from less affluent backgrounds?

Henry Adams.

The religious denomination that responded most favorably to the New Immigration was

Roman Catholics.

That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of

W. E. B. Du Bois

The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was

a trend that affected Europe as well.

The post-Civil War era witnessed

an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws.

The term Richardsonian in the late nineteenth century pertained to

architecture.

By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage

argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world.

Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War?

baseball

In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women

became much more common.

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four? (Choices: slums, dumbbell tenements, bedroom communities, flophouses, the "Lung Block")

bedroom communities

A "bird of passage" was an immigrant who

came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe.

The Darwinism theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by

creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and "accommodationists" who supported it."

The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to

de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization.

General Lewis Wallace's book Ben Hur

defended Christianity against Darwinism.

Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois

demanded complete equality for African Americans.

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

economic independence.

In the course of the late nineteenth century,

family size gradually declined.

The Morrill Act of 1862

granted public lands to states to support higher education.

Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities except (choices: child care, instruction in English, cultural activities, instruction in socialism, social reform lobbying)

instruction in socialism.

Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in

landowners who fainted unearned wealth from rising land values.

The National American Women Suffrage Association

limited its membership to whites.

American novelists' turn from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged social reform reflected the

materialism and conflicts of the new industrial society.

During the industrial revolution, life expectancy

measurably increased.

The growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of

middle class women.

In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except

more children being born out of wedlock.

Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except (choices: opposed to factory labor, used as strikebreakers, willing to work for lower wages, difficult to unionize, non-English speaking)

opposed to factory labor.

American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by

printing sensationalist stories of sex and scandal.

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

In the new urban environment, most liberal Protestants

rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture.

During industrialization, Americans increasingly

shared a common and standardized popular culture.

One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

stresses of urban life.

The America Protective Associtation

supported immigration restrictions.

Henry George argued that the windfall real estate profits caused by rising land prices should be

taxed at a 100 percent rate by the government.

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was

the availability of industrial jobs.

The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was

the big city.

In the 1890s, positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for

the native born.

Most Italian immigrants to the US between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy.

The "pragmatists" were a school of American philosophers who emphasized

the provisional and fallible nature of knowledge and value of ideas that solved problems.

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

the rise of large department stores.

Americas offered growing support for a free public education system because

they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens.

Most New Immigrants

tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.

The New Immigrants who came to the US after 1880

were culturally different from previous immigrants.