Chapter 18 Do Nows

During the late nineteenth century, politicians such as Boss Tweed most likely would have opposed which of the following?

Calls for reforms to local and state governments

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.

The "New Immigrants" who came to the United States after 1880

arrived primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Which phrase best summarizes what Riis considers the cause of the problems he sees?

"In the tenements all the influences make for evil"

Anthony targeted the states as the parts of government discriminating against women primarily for which of the following reasons?

Except for the 14th and 15th amendments, the United States Constitution left the power to the states to determine who could vote

Which of the following most likely explains the significant reduction of immigration during the 1870s and 1890s to the United States?

Financial panics and depressions

Which of the following groups were NOT included among the "new immigrants" of the late 19th century?

Irish peasants

A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

Jane Addams

Which of the following is a correct statement about immigration in the 1890s?

Most of the immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe

Which of the following activities from the middle of the 19th century most closely resembles the Progressive Era reform movement?

Participation by women in moral reform efforts

During the late 19th century, which of the following groups most benefited from the poverty described by Riis?

Political machines

Which of the following was NOT a function of settlement houses?

Serving as a homeless shelter for immigrants

Which group would be most likely to oppose government intervention to improve the tenements?

Social scientists who used the scientific method to research poverty and urban problems

Susan B. Anthony's arguments for women's suffrage can best be understood in the context of

The Reconstruction amendments

Settlement house work 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

Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She refused to pay the fine. Her protest was most similar to which of the following?

The jailing of Henry David Thoreau for not paying taxes for what he considered an immoral war

Which urban housing design, once hailed as a helpful innovation, turned out to be a dangerous blight on the cityscapes?

The tenement building

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

Settlement houses, such as Hull House, engaged in all of the following activities EXCEPT

homeless shelters for new immigrants.

Jane Addams's Hull House was established primarily to

provide a place for immigrants to hold meetings and receive needed support

Although corrupt, New York's Tammany Hall appealed to

recent immigrants and job seekers

In the chart above, the "new immigrants" include those who arrived in the United States from

southern and eastern Europe

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.