Chapter 18 history

In 1869 Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

football

In the late nineteenth century urban political bosses did all of the following except

reduce the costs of city services

In the 1890s Jacob Riis

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

Between 1890 and 1910 incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans

In 1894 the immigration restrictions league

Proposed screening immigrants to allow only the desirable ones to enter

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

Moderately well to do people

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

The rapid growth of urban America and the potential voting power of large immigrant communities

In the late 19th century cities it was not uncommon for the very wealthy to live in the heart of the city

True

Prior to the late 19th century few Americans placed much value in leisure

True

The assimilation process of the late 19th century was aided by the public schools

True

The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897

True

When the first tenements were built in 1850, they were viewed as a great improvement in housing for the poor.

True

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

wealthy residents

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

Chinese

In the late nineteenth century immigrants in the United state's

Generally lacked the capital to buy farmland

In the late nineteenth century many immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities

During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries the growth of newspapers

Saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population

By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from

Southern and Eastern Europe

During the early decades of the twentieth century most Americans began to view leisure time as

increasingly desirable

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor

The primary goal of the American protective association was to

stop immigrants from entering the United States

In the late nineteenth century the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

All these answers are correct.

Compared to most other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century Jewish immigrants

All these answers are correct—

Compared with the first generation second generation immigrants were more likely to

Break from their traditional culture

At the turn of the twentieth century motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium

The nineteenth century game of rounders became the modern sport of

Baseball

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas

The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by

1893 Colombian exposition in Chicago

Roughly what percent of the populations of Chicago New York and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890

80-90 percent

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1870s was

A and p

By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

All these answers are correct.

By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas

consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children.

In the nineteenth century vaudeville Theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts

The great movement of people from rural to urban areas with unique to the United States

False

In 1894 the population density of Manhattan was

Greater than the most crowded European cities

During the late nineteenth century all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods except the

the formation of credit card companies

In the 1890s Florence Kelley and the national consumers league sought to

Force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for women workers

During the late nineteenth century college educations for American women

Had expanded significantly