Chapter 22 HY 102

Cruel sports such as cockfighting declined, while commercialized spectator sports became popular

How did the culture of sports change in the late nineteenth century?

Cities could expand as even people of modest means could travel quickly and cheaply to new, improved, and less congested housing

How did the electric streetcar affect the urban environment?

Married couples increasingly developed stronger emotional ties and based marriage decisions on sentiment and sexual attraction

How did the nature of marriage change by the late nineteenth century?

rootlessness

In his pioneering work of sociology, Suicide (1897), Emile Durkheim concluded that ever-higher suicide rates were caused by widespread feelings of

Excrement from outhouses could be carried off by water through sewers at low cost

What was a central component of the improvements in sanitation in the nineteenth century?

Marriage based on romantic love and middle-class family values

What was companionate marriage?

Having servants

What was the clearest sign that a family was middle class?

It was a stage of life for many poor young women, which they moved beyond as they established their own homes and families

Which of the following describes late-nineteenth-century prostitution?

They gave frequent, large dinner parties as their favored social activity

Why did middle-class families spend considerable portions of their income on food?

all life had gradually evolved from a common ancestral origin

After years of scientific investigation and reflection, Charles Darwin concluded that