history test
Edward Hopper was a painter associated with the
Ashcan School
During the early decades of the twentieth century, most Americans began to view leisure time as
Increasingly desirable
In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese moved from
Initial acceptance to gradual hostility
In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories, laborers could expect to work at least
Ten hours a day, six days a week
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was
The moving assembly line
Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to break from
Their traditional culture
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that a majority of Americans lived in
Urban areas
The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of
Vertical and horizontal integration
The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of
Vertical integration
What is the term for deliberately sensational, often lurid style of reporting designed to reach a mass audience?
Yellow Journalism
Funding for public education was highest in rural areas.True or False
false
In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of
football
In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians assigned all tribes to their own defined
reservations
In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater consisted of a variety of
stage acts
The great railroad strike of 1877 was launched in response to a
wage cut
Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event
Pullman strike
Between 1890 and 1910, incomes in the United States
Rose for almost all Americans
In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in
San Francisco
According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by
Scientific inquiry
In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League proposed screening immigrants to allow only the
"Desirable" ones to enter
By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers
$400 to $500
This act was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers
Dawes Act of 1887
During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from
England, Ireland, and northern Europe
In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was greater than the most crowded
European cities
During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women had
Expanded significantly
In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by
Gender, class, and race
Who began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
The designers of New York City's Central Park deliberately created a public space that would look as
Little like the city as possible
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because they worked for
Lower wages than what whites would accept
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into
Many simple tasks
In the late nineteenth century, American universities significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act, and began to form relationships
with the private sector and government