American Studies Chapter 18 #2

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

80-85 percent

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was

A & P

Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

Mark Twain

In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States

generally lacked the capital to buy farmland

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

had expanded significantly

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

improve the wages and working conditions of employees of manufacturers and retailers

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities

included a new federal environment regulatory agency

The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan school"

included the painted Edward Hopper

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor

In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely

moderately well-to-do people

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

reduce the costs of city services

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, incomes in the United States

rose for almost all Americans

In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

saw charitable organizations try to limit and to only those deemed "deserving poor"

During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers

saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M Tweed, sent to prison

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

scientific inquiry

Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with

social dislocations and injustices of the present

The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from

southern and eastern Europe

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

stop immigrants from entering the United States

The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by

the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago

In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the United States

was constructed with steel girders

The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

wealthy residents

In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States

were mostly foreign-born immigrants and their children

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium

By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included

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Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from

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Compared to other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants

All these answers are correct

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

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In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

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

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In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

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In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were

Chinese

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Funding for public education was highest in rural areas

Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?

Henry James

One significant innovation of urban American in the late nineteenth century was

Large public parks

Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?

The park developed a reputation for wholesome family attractions

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas

The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of

baseball

At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as

being desirable

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

break from their traditional culture

In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater

consisted of a variety of stage acts

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

far greater than the most crowded European cities

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

football

During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods EXCEPT the

formation of credit card companies

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities