apush chapter 24 part 1

pragmatism

A distinctive American philosophy that emerged in the late nineteenth century around the theory that the true value of an idea lay in its ability to solve problems.

Tuskegee Institute

All choices are correct.

Which of the following best represents organized labor's views toward new immigrants?

American workers deserved protection from these foreign laborers.

What conclusion may be reasonably drawn from the image?

Assimilation was not yet complete for these families.

After 1875, most natural scientists did which of the following?

Came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it.

Which two religious groups gained greatly from the mass immigration of the late nineteenth century?

Catholics and Jews

During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?

Educated middle-class women

What did the "normal schools" that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth century specialize in?

Educating teachers

Immigrants to the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

European farms and villages

Which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce.

A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

Jane Addams

What does this image suggest about life in the tenement?

Life in the tenement was communal.

realism

Mid-nineteenth-century movement in European and American literature and the arts that sought to depict contemporary life and society as it actually was, in all its unvarnished detail. Adherents eschewed the idealism and nostalgia of the earlier romantic sensibility.

Who primarily ran settlement houses?

Middle-class, native-born women

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

Midwest and Northeast

Which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration in the 1840s and 1850s?

More immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895.

The quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought?

Social Darwinism

Settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods?

The Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

All of the following are true of "New Immigrants" EXCEPT:

They primarily immigrated from western Europe.

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did which of the following?

They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support.

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of immigrants in the late nineteenth century?

They were mainly female.

What is the likely purpose of the piecework?

To earn a second income.

Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

immigrants

The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

municipal corruption