American studies Chapter 18

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

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

break from their traditional culture

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities

included a new federal environmental regulatory agency

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor

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

moderately well-to-do people

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter

In the 1890s, Jacob Rils

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

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

southern and eastern Europe

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

the sale of American products, public education, church leaders, and religious reform

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

wealthy residents

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

80-90 percent

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

Chinese

The Equitable Building in New York City, completed in 1870, was the first in the United States to

be built with an elevator

By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas

consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children

The designers of New York City's Central Park

deliberately created a public space that would look as little like the city as possible

in 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

greater than the most crowded European cities

By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

elevated railroads, subways, electric trolleys and cable cars, and suspension bridges

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

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities

In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States

generally lacked the capital to buy farmland