Immigrant and Urbanization

Mary Elizabeth Lease:

was a Kansas Alliance leader

During the campaign for the presidential election of 1884, many prominent Republican leaders and supporters left the party because:

Letters were discovered linking candidate James G. Blaine to the railroads

Which of the following was not one of the many reasons that ragtime quickly become a national craze during the 1890s, especially among the working class?

Listening to it was considered a good route to middle class respectability.

William Graham Sumner

argued in his book Folkways that it was a mistake for the government to interfere with established customs.

Herbert Spencer

coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

The Salvation Army was:

organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, and temporary employment for families.

The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:

originally called for a ten-year term

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act:

provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams.

Social Darwinism implied the need for:

Competition for dominance between different social groups.

Why was Lester Frank Ward's Dynamic Sociology considered a challenge to William Graham Sumner's "social Darwinism"?

Ward argued that cooperation among people better promoted progress, while Sumner believed in competition.

The American Protective Association:

Was a secret organization whose members pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic

What was the importance of "culture" for American Victorians?

It was agency vehicle for social uplift that could help those Americans aspiring to middle-class status.

What is the significance of the book Sister Carrie?

It broke with traditional, genteel literary styles to offer a gritty story of an innocent and attractive Wisconsin girl who is seduced by a traveling salesmen, and eventually pursues a theater career.

Modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright believed that

A building's form should follow its function.

In the late 19th century, the least likely place you would find a women spending her leisure time was:

A saloon

In the late 1800s, education reformers such as William Torrey Harris advocated

All of these choices

Which was the key to Hull House's success in its anti-poverty mission?

All of these choices

Why did leisure-time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late nineteenth century?

American employers were increasingly emphasizing leisure time and relaxation as method of keeping their work force happy and healthy.

In the late 19th century, John L. Sullivan represented America's love affair with:

Boxing

Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army:

Demanded government jobs for the unemployed

Which of the following is not an example of the impact of the department store?

It convinced middle class families to buy cheaper products that they would have to replace annually.

Ellis Island was built by New York City primarily to handle an influx of immigrants.

False

Mugwumps tended to oppose civil service reform.

False

Why did young farm women lead the exodus from rural areas to cities?

Farming was increasingly male work due to mechanization.

Facing sever restrictions in their free time, married working women often:

Found fellowship with other women on the public streets while tending to other responsibilities.

In 1890, approximately what portion of the population of the greater New York had been born abroad of were children of foreign parents?

Four out of five.

By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit EXCEPT:

Gasoline-powered buses

Which statement best represents urban residential patterns among ethnic groups?

Immigrants tended to live in shabby tenements until they could afford better housing.

Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

New York City

Which of the following is not evidence that public education in the late 19th century United States had become entangled in ethnic and class differences?

New educational theories that stressed decentralized administration, repealed compulsory attendance and de-emphasized white European conventions such as punctuality.

Commodity prices during Gilded Age declined in large part because of:

Overproduction and international competition in world markets.

The public health officials and municipal engineers that tried to clean up the city and its public health dangers were called:

Sanitary reformers

Which of the following is a valid conclusion to draw about the ways in which immigrants adjusted to urban life in their new society?

Skilled workers and immigrants familiar with the Anglo-American customs had relatively few problems adjusting, but for others, adjusting was difficult.

During the 1896 campaign, William Jennings Bryan

Spoke and campaigned all over the country

What major took place during the 19th century in the teaching of medicine, architecture, engineering, and law?

Standards were raised ad practice was professional.

William "Boss" Tweed controlled:

Tammany Hall

Which of the following statements accurately describes urban growth in the late 19th century?

Urban population grew dramatically with cities such as Chicago growing over 400 percent.

What is the difference between tenements and ghettos.

Tenements were apartment buildings where immigrants clustered; ghettos occurred when residents of tenements were prevented by law or social pressure from renting somewhere else.

Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?

The Far West

What distinguished the Farmer's Alliance from the Granger movement?

The Grange was a national organization that tended to attract more prosperous farmers, while the Alliances were grass roots organizations filled with struggling farmers.

One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of:

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

Economist Thorstein Veblen used the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe

The excessive materialism of the wealthy and the widening gap between workers and the wealthy.

Realists' emphasis on closely observing everyday life grew out of:

The scientific spirit

Josephine Shaw Lowell and the New York Charity Organization Society wanted:

Their aid recipients to move towards self-sufficiency.

What do cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common?

They are all water-related diseases.

How were the new research universities of the late 19th century different from earlier colleges?

They offered courses in a wide variety of subject areas, established professional schools, and encouraged faculty members to pursue basic research.

Vaudeville shows were popular because:

Thy included something to please every taste, social class, and type.

Middle and upper-class urban families spent much of their leisure time:

Together at home playing games and reading books

By 1920, more than half the U.S. population was urban.

True

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species put forward the theory of evolution.

True

One major task in big cities was disposing of horse waste

True

One of the biggest problems farmers faced was falling commodity process, caused in part by overproduction.

True

Saloons were the poor man's social clubs during the late nineteenth century.

True

When first created, the ICC was too weak to regulate the railroads effectively.

True