AP US History: Chapter 25 Review
Match each of these late-nineteenth-century writers with the theme of he work. (Lewis Wallace-A, Horatio Alger-B, Henry James-C, William Dean Howells-D)
A- anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures B- success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work C- psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women. D- contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism
The public library movement across America was greatly aided by the generous financial support from
Andrew Carnegie.
Which of the following was not among the major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era?
Harvard University
Which of the following prominent post-Civil War writers did not reflect the increased attention to social problems by those from less affluent backgrounds?
Henry Adams.
The religious denomination that responded most favorably to the New Immigration was
Roman Catholics.
That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of
W. E. B. Du Bois
The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was
a trend that affected Europe as well.
The post-Civil War era witnessed
an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws.
The term Richardsonian in the late nineteenth century pertained to
architecture.
By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage
argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world.
Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War?
baseball
In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women
became much more common.
Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four? (Choices: slums, dumbbell tenements, bedroom communities, flophouses, the "Lung Block")
bedroom communities
A "bird of passage" was an immigrant who
came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe.
The Darwinism theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by
creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and "accommodationists" who supported it."
The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to
de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization.
General Lewis Wallace's book Ben Hur
defended Christianity against Darwinism.
Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
demanded complete equality for African Americans.
Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was
economic independence.
In the course of the late nineteenth century,
family size gradually declined.
The Morrill Act of 1862
granted public lands to states to support higher education.
Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities except (choices: child care, instruction in English, cultural activities, instruction in socialism, social reform lobbying)
instruction in socialism.
Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in
landowners who fainted unearned wealth from rising land values.
The National American Women Suffrage Association
limited its membership to whites.
American novelists' turn from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged social reform reflected the
materialism and conflicts of the new industrial society.
During the industrial revolution, life expectancy
measurably increased.
The growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of
middle class women.
In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except
more children being born out of wedlock.
Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except (choices: opposed to factory labor, used as strikebreakers, willing to work for lower wages, difficult to unionize, non-English speaking)
opposed to factory labor.
American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by
printing sensationalist stories of sex and scandal.
As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington
promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.
In the new urban environment, most liberal Protestants
rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture.
During industrialization, Americans increasingly
shared a common and standardized popular culture.
One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the
stresses of urban life.
The America Protective Associtation
supported immigration restrictions.
Henry George argued that the windfall real estate profits caused by rising land prices should be
taxed at a 100 percent rate by the government.
The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was
the availability of industrial jobs.
The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was
the big city.
In the 1890s, positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for
the native born.
Most Italian immigrants to the US between 1880 and 1920 came to escape
the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy.
The "pragmatists" were a school of American philosophers who emphasized
the provisional and fallible nature of knowledge and value of ideas that solved problems.
One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was
the rise of large department stores.
Americas offered growing support for a free public education system because
they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens.
Most New Immigrants
tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.
The New Immigrants who came to the US after 1880
were culturally different from previous immigrants.