apush chapter 18
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.
The national network of grocery stores that opened in the 1870s was
the A&P.
By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
All the answers are correct.
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from
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In the late nineteenth century, American universities
All the answers are correct.
In the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews
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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 the late nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States
formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities.
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 wages and working conditions of manufacturers and retailers
In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities
included a new federal environmental regulatory agency.
The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan School"
included the painter Edward Hopper.
Tenement buildings in urban America were
initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.
One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century was
large public parks.
In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States
mostly came from Europe.
By 1890, the percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit that were made up of immigrants was approximately
80 percent.
In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their nationality were
Chinese
Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?
Henry James
Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?
Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.
Which statement regarding telephone service during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is FALSE?
In its first years, telephone operators were all men.
Which American writer would be LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?
Mark Twain
Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?
The park developed a reputation for wholesome, family attractions.
In the late nineteenth century, the leading cause of death in large American cities resulted from
disease
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time
as being desirable
The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of
baseball
in 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of
basketball
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 1894, the Immigration Restriction League
proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter.
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 aid to those deemed "deserving poor."
In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers
saw newspaper circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population.
According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by
scientific inquiry.
Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with the urban troubles of
single women.
The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from
southern and eastern Europe.
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, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by
the moderately well-to-do people.
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.
By 1900, all of the following statements regarding American medicine were true EXCEPT
vaccines for typhoid and dysentery had been introduced.
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.
At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures
were the first true mass entertainment medium.