history test

Edward Hopper was a painter associated with the

Ashcan School

During the early decades of the twentieth century, most Americans began to view leisure time as

Increasingly desirable

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese moved from

Initial acceptance to gradual hostility

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories, laborers could expect to work at least

Ten hours a day, six days a week

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

The moving assembly line

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

Their traditional culture

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that a majority of Americans lived in

Urban areas

The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

Vertical and horizontal integration

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

Vertical integration

What is the term for deliberately sensational, often lurid style of reporting designed to reach a mass audience?

Yellow Journalism

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.True or False

false

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

football

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians assigned all tribes to their own defined

reservations

In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater consisted of a variety of

stage acts

The great railroad strike of 1877 was launched in response to a

wage cut

Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event

Pullman strike

Between 1890 and 1910, incomes in the United States

Rose for almost all Americans

In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in

San Francisco

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

Scientific inquiry

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League proposed screening immigrants to allow only the

"Desirable" ones to enter

By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers

$400 to $500

This act was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers

Dawes Act of 1887

During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

England, Ireland, and northern Europe

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was greater than the most crowded

European cities

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women had

Expanded significantly

In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by

Gender, class, and race

Who began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio

John D. Rockefeller

The designers of New York City's Central Park deliberately created a public space that would look as

Little like the city as possible

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because they worked for

Lower wages than what whites would accept

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into

Many simple tasks

In the late nineteenth century, American universities significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act, and began to form relationships

with the private sector and government