Ch. 18

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their nationality were

Chinese.

In the late nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities and generally lacked the capital to buy farmland.

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison

In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by

the moderately well-to-do people

In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the United States

was constructed with steel girders

The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

wealthy residents.

In the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews

all of the above

In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States

experienced massive growth even where there was little immigration.

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve occupational safety

included a new federal regulatory agency.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.

One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century was

large public parks.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements

Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with

social dislocations and injustices of the present.

The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from

southern and eastern Europe.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants.