U.S. History II: Chapter 18
Between 1880 and 1900, most immigrants __________.
were young men
In the 1880s, factory workers typically worked __________.
10 hours a day, six days a week
By 1900, __________ percent of the nation's population lived in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants.
19
By 1910, women comprised __________ percent of all American college students.
40
How did late-nineteenth-century nativism differ from its antebellum predecessor?
It targeted Catholics and Jews from southern and eastern Europe.
Which of the following groups of immigrants was least likely to return to their homeland?
Jews
Which of the following was true of Chinese immigrants to the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century?
Most came from Canton in South China.
Which of the following was a major advantage of the corporation over other forms of business organization?
Officials and shareholders are not personally liable for its debts.
Pogroms were government-sanctioned attacks on __________ Jews.
Russian
Which of the following pioneered horizontal integration in the 1880s?
The Standard Oil Company
How did urban growth in the United States in the late nineteenth century differ from urban growth in Europe?
Urban growth in the United States was more evenly distributed among many cities.
What sparked a surge of Japanese immigration to the United States in the late 1880s?
a land shortage
Which of the following was the leading middle-class spectator sport in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?
baseball
How did the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) propose to restrict immigration?
by imposing a literacy test
In most northern cities in 1900, black people typically worked as __________.
common laborers
Originating in the 1850s and 1860s, the __________ came to epitomize the bounty of the new industrial capitalism.
department store
In which of the following areas did scientific theory precede technological innovation?
electricity
The Japanese Association of America __________.
encouraged assimilation
Landsmanshaften __________.
helped provide jobs to new immigrants
Which of the following was likely the most important factor in motivating the Great Migration?
job opportunities
In the __________, the United States shifted from a technology borrower to a technology innovator.
late nineteenth century
Elihu Thomson played a key role in the development of the __________ industry.
lightbulb
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle chronicled conditions in __________.
meatpacking plants
In the 1850s and 1860s, most department store customers were __________.
middle-class married women
Which of the following groups became part of the urban middle class in the late nineteenth century?
office workers
The Great Uprising of 1877 was a/an __________.
railroad strike
The ____________ emerged as the preferred place of residence for the urban middle class after 1870.
suburb
What was the "White City"?
the 1893 World's Fair
Which of the following offers a good example of vertical integration?
the meatpacking industry
Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical wage-earning woman in 1900?
unmarried and under the age of 25
