Chapter 18 history
In 1869 Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of
football
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
Between 1890 and 1910 incomes in the United States
rose for almost all Americans
In 1894 the immigration restrictions league
Proposed screening immigrants to allow only the desirable ones to enter
In the late nineteenth century the Tammany hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison
In the late nineteenth century suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by
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 potential voting power of large immigrant communities
In the late 19th century cities it was not uncommon for the very wealthy to live in the heart of the city
True
Prior to the late 19th century few Americans placed much value in leisure
True
The assimilation process of the late 19th century was aided by the public schools
True
The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897
True
When the first tenements were built in 1850, they were viewed as a great improvement in housing for the poor.
True
The principal force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
wealthy residents
In 1882 the group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were
Chinese
In the late nineteenth century immigrants in the United state's
Generally lacked the capital to buy farmland
In the late nineteenth century many immigrants to the United States
formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities
During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries the growth of newspapers
Saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population
By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from
Southern and Eastern Europe
During the early decades of the twentieth century most Americans began to view leisure time as
increasingly desirable
Tenement buildings in urban America were
initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor
The primary goal of the American protective association was to
stop immigrants from entering the United States
In the late nineteenth century the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by
All these answers are correct.
Compared to most other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century Jewish immigrants
All these answers are correct—
Compared with the first generation second generation immigrants were more likely to
Break from their traditional culture
At the turn of the twentieth century motion pictures
were the first true mass entertainment medium
The nineteenth century game of rounders became the modern sport of
Baseball
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas
The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by
1893 Colombian exposition in Chicago
Roughly what percent of the populations of Chicago New York and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890
80-90 percent
The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1870s was
A and p
By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
All these answers are correct.
By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas
consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children.
In the nineteenth century vaudeville Theater
consisted of a variety of stage acts
The great movement of people from rural to urban areas with unique to the United States
False
In 1894 the population density of Manhattan was
Greater than the most crowded European cities
During the late nineteenth century all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods except the
the formation of credit card companies
In the 1890s Florence Kelley and the national consumers league sought to
Force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for women workers
During the late nineteenth century college educations for American women
Had expanded significantly