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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.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium.

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

Chinese

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

football

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust

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.

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,

laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week

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

mostly came from Europe

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

organize industrial production into many simple tasks

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 improvements.

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

saw newspaper circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

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

southern and eastern Europe

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they had poor individual character

The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration

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

was constructed with steel girders

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All these answers are correct.

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor.

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Europe

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes

The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

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

the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?

John D. Rockefeller