U.S. History II: Chapter 18

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Between 1880 and 1900, most immigrants __________.

were young men

In the 1880s, factory workers typically worked __________.

10 hours a day, six days a week

By 1900, __________ percent of the nation's population lived in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants.

19

By 1910, women comprised __________ percent of all American college students.

40

How did late-nineteenth-century nativism differ from its antebellum predecessor?

It targeted Catholics and Jews from southern and eastern Europe.

Which of the following groups of immigrants was least likely to return to their homeland?

Jews

Which of the following was true of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Most came from Canton in South China.

Which of the following was a major advantage of the corporation over other forms of business organization?

Officials and shareholders are not personally liable for its debts.

Pogroms were government-sanctioned attacks on __________ Jews.

Russian

Which of the following pioneered horizontal integration in the 1880s?

The Standard Oil Company

How did urban growth in the United States in the late nineteenth century differ from urban growth in Europe?

Urban growth in the United States was more evenly distributed among many cities.

What sparked a surge of Japanese immigration to the United States in the late 1880s?

a land shortage

Which of the following was the leading middle-class spectator sport in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?

baseball

How did the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) propose to restrict immigration?

by imposing a literacy test

In most northern cities in 1900, black people typically worked as __________.

common laborers

Originating in the 1850s and 1860s, the __________ came to epitomize the bounty of the new industrial capitalism.

department store

In which of the following areas did scientific theory precede technological innovation?

electricity

The Japanese Association of America __________.

encouraged assimilation

Landsmanshaften __________.

helped provide jobs to new immigrants

Which of the following was likely the most important factor in motivating the Great Migration?

job opportunities

In the __________, the United States shifted from a technology borrower to a technology innovator.

late nineteenth century

Elihu Thomson played a key role in the development of the __________ industry.

lightbulb

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle chronicled conditions in __________.

meatpacking plants

In the 1850s and 1860s, most department store customers were __________.

middle-class married women

Which of the following groups became part of the urban middle class in the late nineteenth century?

office workers

The Great Uprising of 1877 was a/an __________.

railroad strike

The ____________ emerged as the preferred place of residence for the urban middle class after 1870.

suburb

What was the "White City"?

the 1893 World's Fair

Which of the following offers a good example of vertical integration?

the meatpacking industry

Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical wage-earning woman in 1900?

unmarried and under the age of 25


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