APUSH Ch. 18 -- connect

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At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

were the first true mass entertainment medium.

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for women workers.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor.

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to

rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

reported on the living 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 US.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were

Chinese.

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

All these are correct (sale of American products, public education, church leaders, religious reform).


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