Chapter 18

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

football.

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

mostly came from Europe.

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

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

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvement'

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

improve the wages and working conditions of employees of manufacturers and retailers.

The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan school"

included the painter Edward Hopper.

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

saw newspaper circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population.

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry

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

social dislocations and injustices of the present

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

the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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.

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

was constructed with steel girders

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium.

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

Southern and Eastern Europe.

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

Chinese.