Chapter 18: Industry, Immigrants, and Cities

In the 1880s, factory workers typically worked __________.

10 hours a day, six days a week

Originating in the 1850s and the 1860s, the __________ came to epitomize the bounty of the new industrial capitalism.

department store

Between 1880 and 1900, most immigrants __________.

were young men

Which of the following groups of immigrants was least likely to return to their homeland?

Jews

Which of the following pioneered horizontal integration in the 1880s?

The Standard Oil Company

Which of the following was the leading middle-class spectator sport in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?

baseball

The Japanese Association of America __________.

encouraged assimilation

Which of the following was likely the most important factor in motivating the Great Migration?

job opportunities

In the __________, the United States shifted from a technology borrower to a technology innovator.

late nineteenth century

Which of the following was true of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century?

most came from Canton in South China

Which of the following groups became part of the urban middle class in the late nineteenth century?

office workers

The Great Uprising of 1877 was a/an __________.

railroad strike

The __________ emerged as the preferred place of residence for the urban middle class after 1870.

suburb

Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical wage-earning woman in 1900?

unmarried and under the age of 25

How did urban growth in the United States in the late nineteenth century differ from urban growth in Europe?

urban growth in the United States was more evenly distributed among many other cities