American studies Chapter 18
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.
Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to
break from their traditional culture
In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities
included a new federal environmental regulatory agency
Tenement buildings in urban America were
initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor
in the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by
moderately well-to-do people
In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League
proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter
In the 1890s, Jacob Rils
reported on the lining conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements
By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from
southern and eastern Europe
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
the sale of American products, public education, church leaders, and religious reform
The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
wealthy residents
Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?
80-90 percent
In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were
Chinese
The Equitable Building in New York City, completed in 1870, was the first in the United States to
be built with an elevator
By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas
consisted mostly of foreign-born immigrants and their children
The designers of New York City's Central Park
deliberately created a public space that would look as little like the city as possible
in 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was
greater than the most crowded European cities
By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
elevated railroads, subways, electric trolleys and cable cars, and suspension bridges
In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States
formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States
generally lacked the capital to buy farmland