American Studies Chapter 18 #2
Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?
80-85 percent
The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was
A & P
Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?
Mark Twain
In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States
generally lacked the capital to buy farmland
During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women
had expanded significantly
In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to
improve the wages and working conditions of employees of manufacturers and retailers
In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities
included a new federal environment regulatory agency
The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan school"
included the painted Edward Hopper
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
moderately well-to-do people
In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League
proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter
In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the
rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants
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
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, incomes in the United States
rose for almost all Americans
In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America
saw charitable organizations try to limit and to only those deemed "deserving poor"
During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers
saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population
In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine
saw its most famous boss, William M Tweed, sent to prison
According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by
scientific inquiry
Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, dealt with
social dislocations and injustices of the present
The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from
southern and eastern Europe
The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to
stop immigrants from entering the United States
The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by
the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago
In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the United States
was constructed with steel girders
The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was
wealthy residents
In the late nineteenth century, the population in urban areas of the United States
were mostly foreign-born immigrants and their children
At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures
were the first true mass entertainment medium
By 1900, the transportation systems of American cities included
All these answers are correct
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from
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Compared to other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants
All these answers are correct
In the late nineteenth century, American universities
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In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers
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In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by
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In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by
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In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were
Chinese
Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?
Funding for public education was highest in rural areas
Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?
Henry James
One significant innovation of urban American in the late nineteenth century was
Large public parks
Which of the following statements regarding Coney Island is FALSE?
The park developed a reputation for wholesome family attractions
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas
The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of
baseball
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as
being desirable
Compared with the first generation, second generation immigrants were more likely to
break from their traditional culture
In the nineteenth century, vaudeville theater
consisted of a variety of stage acts
In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was
far greater than the most crowded European cities
In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of
football
During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods EXCEPT the
formation of credit card companies
In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States
formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities
