apush quiz 2

which author took a magnifying glass to the inner turmoil and moral shortcomings of post-Civil War high society

Edith Wharton

immigrants to the united states in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

European farms and villages

who was the journalist-reformer who advocated a single tax

Henry George

a prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement

Jane Addams

which american author is known for carrying literary realism to new heiguts

Mark Twain

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

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

Social Darwinism

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most likely described as

Social Darwinists

after 1875, most natural scientists did which of the following

came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it

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

The cartoon above is a commentary on late nineteenth-century

municipal corruption

which of the following was both a response to immigration in the 1850s and the immigration depicted in the graph

nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants

settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

organizing women workers into labor unions

Liberal Protestantism

reconciliation of religious ideas with modern culture

which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa, and the Americas between 1882 and 1909

restrictive congressional legislation

which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt

settlement house workers

Anthony Comstock was best known for his crusade against which of the following

sexual explicitness and obscenity

the late nineteenth century ushered in an era of social crusades and reform, including the effort to prohibit alcohol and promote temperance. all of the following phrases describe the goal of this movement EXCEPT

target unwanted immigrant groups

which of the following aimed to promote order, harmony, and virtue while beautifying the nations new urban soaces

the City Beautiful movement

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

all of the following are true of daily newspapers in the late nineteenth century except

the day of slashing journalistic giants like Horace Greeley was returning

which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true

the only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi

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

which of the following was true of settlement house workers in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries

they included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women

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

they provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support

which of the following are NOT characteristics of immigrants in the late nineteenth century

they were mainly female

what is the likely purpose of the piecework (women working)

to earn a second income

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

regionalism

A recurring artistic movement that, in the context of the late nineteenth century, aspired to capture the peculiarities, or "local color," of America's various regions in the face of modernization and national standardization

naturalism

a literary style exploring social dislocation and intellectual upheaval

realism

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

natural selection

a theory explaining how organisms evolved

Tuskegee Institute

all choices are correct

carrie chapman catt

all choices are correct

W. E. B. Du Bois

all choices are corrext

what conclusion may be drawn from the image (women sewing)

assimilation was not yet complete for these families

during the late nineteenth century, politicians such as the one depicted in the image most likely would have opposed which of the following (Boss Tweed)

calls for reforms to local and state governments

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

immigrants

the image was most directly in response to (Boss Tweed)

the power gained by urban political machines

All of the following are true of "New Immigrants" except

they primarily immigrated from western Europe

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

Catholics and Jews

which of the following was a long-term development that contributed to the change in Chinese immigration depicted in the graph between 1875 and 1885

Chinese laborers competed with White laborers for jobs and mineral wealth during the 1850s and 1860s

John Dewey

A leader of the pragmatist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dewey applied the philosophy to education and social reform, advocating "learning by doing" as well as the application of knowledge to solving real life problems. He became an outspoken promoter of social and political reforms that broadened American democracy

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

American workers deserved protection from these foreign laborers

naturalism

An offshoot of mainstream realism, this late-nineteenth-century literary movement purported to apply detached scientific objectivity to the study of human characters shaped by degenerate heredity and extreme or sordid social environments

Booker T. Washington

As head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Washington advocated for vocational education for African-Americans so that they could gain economic security

working women in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help

immigrants adapt to American customs and language

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

What does this image suggest about life in the tenement (women working)

life in the tenement was communal

which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration from 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