History Chapter 18
Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?
Henry James
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as
being desirable.
In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater
consisted of a variety of stage acts
In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was
far greater than the most crowded European cities.
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States
generally lacked the capital to buy farmland.
In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States
mostly came from Europe.
According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by
scientific inquiry.
In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the United States
was constructed with steel girders.
The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
wealthy residents.
At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures
were the first true mass entertainment medium.
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from
All these answers are correct.
In the late nineteenth century, American universities
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In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers
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By the turn of the century, primary and secondary education were nearly universal in the United States.
False
By the turn of the century, professional baseball and professional football were both important spectator sports.
False
In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT
reduce the costs of city services.
In the 1890s, Jacob Riis
reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements.
heodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with
social dislocations and injustices of the present.
The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to
stop immigrants from entering the United States.
Which American writer would be LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?
Mark Twain