Chapter 4 AP Stats

The invention that sped up city communications most after 1876 in the United States was the

telephone.

the "city beautiful" movement in the united states was inspired, in part, by

the 1893 Colombian Exposition in Chicago

in the late nineteenth century, immigrants to the urban areas in the united states

generally lacked the capital to buy land

Around the turn of the century, African Americans moving to cities in the North experienced

increasing residential segregation.

In late-nineteenth-century America, all of the following were signs of high status except

living close to one's place of employment.

which american writer would be less associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century

mark twain

Around 1900, the building of American cities was primarily a function of

municipal governments/ private enterprise

Which one of the following did urban political machines not do in late-nineteenth-century America?

Clean up prostitution and other forms of corruption.

Before the 1880s, most Jews in America came from

Germany

In the late nineteenth century, George Washington Plunkitt was

a Tammany ward boss who courted all nationalities to win their support.

Between 1877 and 1893, American politics

celebrated the government that governed least.

in the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

the sale of american products & public education & church leaders

The expression "Gilded Age" originated as the

title of a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that was published in 1873 and satirized America as a land of vulgar money grubbers.

By 1900, the primary means of urban mass transit in the United States was the

trolley car.

in 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the united states

was constructed with steel girders

the principal force behind the creation pf read public buildings in the late nineteenth century was/were

wealthy residents

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes immigrants' accommodation to city life in the United States around 1900?

Many relied on native-language newspapers, the conviviality of saloons, and the assistance of mutual-aid societies.

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes residential patterns in the typical American city around 1900?

Immigrants from a particular region of a country tended to settle by ethnic group.

Which of the following occupational groups grew most rapidly in the United States between 1870 and 1910?

Salaried employees.

Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes industry in post-Civil War American cites?

In most industries, the scale of production increased.

Joseph Pulitzer was the

St. Louis newspaper publisher who set off a furious circulation war with papers owned by William Randolph Hearst.

in the late nineteenth century, most immigrants to the united states

formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities

in the early nineteenth century, efforts to improve enviormental problems in american cities

included a new federal environmental regulatory agency

In the late nineteenth century, the population increase in urban areas of the United States

increased 700 percent in the fifty years after the Civil War

tenement buildings the urban america were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor

Political machines provided Americans with

institutions capable of providing services left undone by government.

Most members of the newly rising American middle class around 1900

preferred to live in the suburbs because of the privacy it afforded them.

n the 1890's, Jacob Riis

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements

In the late nineteenth century, baseball

served to unite city dwellers.

theodore dreiser's 1900 novel, SISTER CARRIE dealt with the urban troubles of

single women

by 1890, the percentage of the population of chicago, new york, and detroit that were made up of immigrants was approximately

80 percent

around 1900 if an ordinary american city dweller where immigrant or native born needed a favor done by a person with authority, he or she was most likely to turn to

a alderman or ward boss

the 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas

n the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews

advanced rapidly economically & placed a high value on education

in the late nineteenth century, the leading cause of death in large American cities resulted from

disease

Compulsory segregation, other than in education, was first imposed on southern blacks

during the late 1880s in the form of southern states' prohibitions against blacks traveling in first-class railroad passenger cars.

For ordinary Americans of the late nineteenth century, the invention that probably offered the most dramatic evidence of changing urban life was the

electric light.

by 1900, modes of mass transportation in america cities included

elevated railroads & subways & electric trolley cars

After the Civil War, metropolitan newspapers

expanded to include human-interest stories, a women's page, and society and sports sections.

in 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

far greater than the most crowded European cities

Most of the immigrants who arrived in American cities between 1900 and 1910 were

southern and eastern European Jews and Catholics.

In the late nineteenth century, the American Catholic hierarchy was dominated by

Irish Americans.

Around 1900, American urban mass transit was primarily a function of

Private corporations.

compared with the first generation, second generation immigrants were more likely to

break from their traditional culture

Many middle-class Americans in the late nineteenth century

no longer firmly linked sex and procreation and began to acknowledge that healthy sexuality should give pleasure to both men and women.

one significant innovation of urban america in the late nineteenth century were

public parks

n the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following except

reducing the costs of city services

n the late nineteenth century, new york's tammany hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, william m tweed, sent to prison

The "Gibson girl" of the 1890s personified

the middle-class "new woman"--spirited, athletic, and chastely sexual.

n the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edge 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 & the influx of millions of immigrants