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Before the civil war, most manufacturing operations sprung up in

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Countryside locations

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What accounted for the relocation of manufacturing operations into urban areas after the Civil War l?

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Steam power

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By 1900, which of the following was the primary means of urban mass transit in the U.S?

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Trolley car

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What was the primary complaint if trolleys in America in the 1800s?

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Frequent accidents

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Suburbs for the well to do first began to emerge on the outskirts of the major American cities in which of these periods?

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Before the Civil War

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Which of these statements describes the newly rising American Middle class around 1900?

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Many preferred to love in the suburbs bc it provided safety and space

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Which inventions transformed urban and suburban communications in the U.S?

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Telephone

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Which of the following made the growth of skyscrapers possible?

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The development of steel girders, plate glass, and elevators

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The first skyscraper of the u.s was built in which city?

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Chicago

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Which of these inventions made residents feel safer in urban areas in the late 19 century?

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Electric light

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Which of the following statements most characterizes residential patterns in the typical American city in the 1900s

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

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Which of the following statements describes immigrants' accommodation to city life in the u.s?

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

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Around the turn of the century, AA moving to cities in the north experienced which of the following?

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More discrimination then even the most downtrodden European immigrants

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Where did almost 90% of AA live in the 1900/?

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The south

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Which of the following statements describes the anti black race roosts that occurred in cities in the early 20th century?

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Race riots foreshadowed a worsening of urban racial tensions

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Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas

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Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments

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Which of the following phenomena emerged as an important influence on urban entertainment

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Black music

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The rise of nickelodeons, amusements parks, dance halls, and other cheap amusement in cities had which of the following effects?

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Challenging traditional courtship rituals

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What made younger women vulnerable in the new system of dating and treating that emerged in early 20th centuries?

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Women's low wages

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Which of the following statements characterizes gay culture in the early 20th century New York?

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The city's exuberant gay subculture provoked harassment but officials tolerated it's existence

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Who of the following was the greatest benefactor of public libraries in the 19th century America, who announced that he would build a library in any city that was prepared to maintain it

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Andrew Carnegie

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Who was Joseph Pulitzer and what made him significant?

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A St. Louis newspaper who built his news sales with sensational investigations

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Which of the following describes metropolitan newspapers in the period after the Civil War?

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They expanded to include human interest stories and society and sport sections

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William Randolph Hearst's and Joseph Pulitzer's sensationalist style f reporting was known as

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Yellow journalism

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David Graham Phillips established his credentials as a muckraker when he wrote a scathing analysis on which subject?

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U.S Senate

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Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's attitude towards the muckraker?

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Appalled, he dismissed them as muckrakers who overemphasized Americas negative aspects

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To what phenomenon did the book title The Shame of the Cities specifically refer?

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Urban political corrpution

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Which of the following muckrakers is correctly matched with his or her reform area?

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Lincoln Steffens-the corruption of Americas urban governments

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To what late 19th century phenomenon does the term "private city" refer?

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Businesses' role in the creation of urban environments

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Which of he following describes the urban political machines of the late 19th century?

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Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble

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In the late nineteenth century, George Washington Plunkitt was

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The Tammy ward boss that courted all ethnic groups to win their support

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What level of gov generally saw the most corruption in the late 1800:

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Urban

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To what did the Tammy ward boss refer when he talked about the "honest graft"

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Profiting from insider status

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During the 1890s, what caused voters to turn away from urban political machines and start embracing urban political reformers?

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The economic depression

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Why did Galveston, Texas adopt a commission system in 1900 that later became a nationwide model for efficient government?

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To rebuild after a hurricane killed roughly 6,000 people

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Around 1900, if an ordinary city dweller, whether immigrant or native-born needed a favor done by a person with authority, he or she would most likely turn to whom?

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An alderman or ward boss

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Which of the following statements characterizes urban political reform efforts in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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Some reform mayors modeled their reform efforts on cutting-edge European efforts in cities like Glasgow and Dusseldorf

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What spurred many big cities' pursuit of state of the art sewage and draining systems at the end of the 19th century?

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They sought to improve public health

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The City Beautiful movement is associated with which of he following act.?

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Attempts to build more and better urban park spaces, including playgrounds and gardens

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How did the early 20th century campaign against urban prostitution affect women working as prostitutes at the time?

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By closing brothels, new laws worsened many prostitutes' working conditions

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What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working class people they served throughout settlement houses in early 20th century?

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A stronger sense of "civic enterprise" and moral conviction

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Florence Kelley became a female advocate for

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Female and child laborers

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The settlement houses that emerged in early 20th century cities established which new occupational field?

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Social work

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Which of the following describes the emerging profession of social work at the turn of the 19th century?

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Most social workers at this time viewed themselves as advocates of social justice

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Why was Margaret Sanger's newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" significant?

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It contributed to launching a national birth control movement

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Why was Margaret Sanger indicated for her newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" in the 1910s?

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Her discussion of birth control violated obscenity laws

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What spurred the U.S Congress to pass the pure food and drug act in 1906?

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A public uproar caused by Upton Sinclair's realist novel, "The Jungle"

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 led to which of the following outcomes?

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New York state's passage of the most advanced labor code in the country at that time

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Why was the New York legislation dealing with safety in factories and wages- and hour laws for women and children was enacted?

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Which of the following Hull House volunteers became the first American women to hold a U.S cabinet post?

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Frances Perkins

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which of the figures was a major proponent of commercial domesticity in the 19th century?

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P. T. Barnum

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how did the large department stores of the 19th century attract middle-class women patrons?

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they offered tearooms and attentive service

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how did working-class women gain access to the fine department stores in the United States in the late 19th century?

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working class women gained access as clerks,cashiers, and store messengers

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which of these late 19th century US Supreme Court rulings settled the question of African Americans' access to regular first-class seats on American railroad cars until the 1950s?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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which pf the following describes the consumer culture that emerged in the late 19th century and early 20th century United States?

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modern and innovative

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which of the phenonmons spurred changes in American's understanding of masculinity in the late 19th century?

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baseball

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the growth of the YMCA in the late 19th century American cities resulted from which of theses following factors?

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the ymca prompted "muscular Christianity" for white collar workers

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by the early 1900s many business leaders encouraged their male workers to participate in sports to

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adjust to the demands of the industrial clock

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which of the sports was invented by YMCA instructures in the 1890s?

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basketball

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how did baseball become americas most popular game?

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professional teams were started in the dozens of cities as part of the national league

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which of the following was a reason american bussiness embraced baseball in the late19th century

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the game was a wholesome way to promoye discipline and teamwork

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as the united states industrialized, the outdoors lost its association with danger wnd hard work and became widely associated with

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renewal

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which of the following are correctly matched

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sierra club-founded by john muir to preserve the environment

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which of the following statements chsracteristics urban leisure in post civilwar america?

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leisure became a commercial commodity enjoyed outside the home

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elizabeth cody stanton's speech to Congress in 1892 on the"solitude of self" referred to the

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importance of women's autonomy in modern society

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the typical american middle class household in 1900 consisted of husband, wife, and how many additional famiy members?

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3 children

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which of the following was true for middle class families in the late 19th century?

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smaller family sizes allowed parents to focus their resources and increase their social mobility

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the Comstock Act took effect in 1873 and

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prohibited the circulation of any information about sex and birth control

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which of the following statements characterizes changes in the lives of middle class american children in the last decades of the 19th century

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a high school education became more common

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why did the rare of college attendance quadruple between the 1880s and the 1920s

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the public university system expanded

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which of the following statements summarizes Booker T. Washingtons approach to racial change in the United States

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he promoted industrial education for blacks as a strategy for lessening white prejudice

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between 1880 and 1920 higher education for women was

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mostly single sex institutions in the northeat and south

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which of the following describes the Womens Christisn Temperance Union(WCTU) in the late 19th century

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it suported women suffrage as a tool that could challenge the liqor interest

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the Womens Christian Temperance Movement was the first nationak movement to

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identify and fight against domestic violence

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which of the following groups would have been unlikely to support prohibition in the late 19th century

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german immigrants

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in the 1880s the women's Christian temperance movement controversially threw its support behind the

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prohibition party

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which region of the united states had responded to the womens voting rights movement by 1900?

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west

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the National Association of Colored Women was effective in its efforts to improve the life of African Americans because it

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focused its attention on community issues such as public health

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why was the united daughters of the confederacy founded in 1894?

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to promote the "Lost Cause" of the south in the civil war

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what did the term "petticoat rule" mean when it was used by antisuffragies in the early 20th century?

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if granted the right to vote, women might cancel husbands vote

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the Heterodoxy Club founded in Greenwich Valley in 1912 was open to any woman who pledged

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not to be orthodox in her opinions

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in the 19th century Social Darwinists such as Willism Graham Summer, believed that

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millionaires were the fittest Americans

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which of these concepts followed directly from the philosophy of Social Darwinism?

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Eugenics law

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which of the following statements describes Charles Darwin's theories as presented in his book the Orgin of Species?

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animals and plants adopt to better suit their environment through natural selection

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which of the following aithors rejected romanticism and Victorian sentimentality in their works?

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Stephen Crane

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which of the following authors ix correctly match with one of his works?

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mark twain-a connecticut yankee on king authors court

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which of the following is the correct chronological order of the literary movement in the United Stated during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism

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realism and moderism had which of the followinv characteristics in common?

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both forms emphasized virility and masculinity

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on the late 19th century the American Catholic hierachy was dominate by

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irish americans

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which of the following is true of religion in the city at the turn of the 20th century?

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the catholic church incorporated ethnic differences in urban areas

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in the late 19th century many native-born properous American laws embraced

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reform judaism

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by 1916, which of the following religious groups had increased immensely in the United States because of immigrants?

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catholics

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of the 9 thousand overseas protestant missionaries in 1915, the largest percentGe of them served in

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asia

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iowans created the American Protective Organization in 1887 to

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oppose the influence of Catholics in the United States

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Protestant churches that espoused the Social Gospel

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taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare

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the urban revivalism of Billy Sunday represented

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the fundamentalism movement

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what sport was the most conteoversial in the late 1800s?

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college football

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the gibson girl of the 1890s personified which of the follwing female images?

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the middleclass "new woman"- public spirited and athletic

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which of the following statements characterizes family life in the late 1800s?

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family size continued its steady decline because middle class children in cities were not needed for work

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which of the following athletic activities were the elite women in their twenties likely to participate?

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tennis

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Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become to tremendously successful?

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Andrew Carnegie

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Why was the strike by steel workers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?

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The lockout represented Carnegies effort to break the plants union

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What resulted in industrialization in the decades after the Civil War?

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A higher standard of living

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What argument did Andrew Carnegie make his famous 1889 essay "Gospel of wealth"

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Industrialization had allowed The poor to raise themselves to nearly same level as the wealth

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After the Civil War, Republicans economic policies led to what?

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The dominance of large corporations

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As American industry expanded in the late 19th century, it's energy source shifted from what to what

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Water to coal

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New corporate managers pioneered which system to track expenses and revenue from the late 19 century?

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Cost accounting

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Gustavis swift boosted productivity in a Chicago slaughterhouse in the 1860s by using what?

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Assembly-line

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What did Andrew Carnegie, Gustavis swift, and John D Rockefeller have in common?

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They succeeded through vertical integration

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Which of the following describes vertically integrated corporation?

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Such corporations control all aspects of the operations businesses

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Which of the following technological innovations made it possible for swift to undertake the prices of local butchers?

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Refrigerated car

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Which business strategy did did John D Rockefeller pioneer in the late 19 century?

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Horizontal integration

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The United States had become the leading producer in the world by 1900 because of what?

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The Bessemer process

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How did John d Rockefellers standard oil corporation come to control 95% of the nations oil refining to possibly in the 1880s?

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Through predatory pricing in the creation of the trust

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What late 19th century development made it possible for you American to participate in the national consumer culture?

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Catalogs

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The development of late nineteenth century advertising illustrates the significance of which late 19 century phenomenal?

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Business is creating demand for brand-names

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Which magazine was the first to take advantage of advertising revenue to build mass readership, with over 1 million subscribers?

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Time magazine

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Which of the following statements characterizes the employment of women in the American labor force during the late 19th century?

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And women were not encourage to enter the workforce until they were married

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Why was clerical in office work appealing to white working-class women in the late 19th century

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Office work was cleaner and better pay than domestic services or factory work

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Which of the following describes the traveling salesman in the late 19th century?

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They helped build nationwide distribution networks for a multitude of products

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Who were skilled workers with the relatively high degree of autonomy me in the 1870s?

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Machinist

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What was a consequence of mass production

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Skilled workers gradually lost their autonomu

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Introduction of mass production in the late 19th century American economy had which of the following advantages

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Mass production increased workers output

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"it looks to me like slavery to happen to have a man stand over you with the stopwatch" this statement by an iron molder refers to what

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Scientific management

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The outcome of the implementation of scientific management was what?

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Resistance from workers

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Which of the following statements characterizes the economics of working-class family life in the late 19th century America?

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Due to their dire economic circumstances working-class families frequently sent the children out to work at mills factories and mines

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Why did so few African-American men factory jobs in the United States in 1890?

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Factory owners found that they could satisfy most of the labor needs with immigrant workers so they rejected both block applicants

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New immigration patterns in the early 20th century reflect the growing immigration from where?

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Southern and Eastern Europe

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During the late 1800s an Adult male from what locations would more likely be a skilled worker?

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Wales

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Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who enter the United States between 1880 and 1920?

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They often planned on working at saving money for a few years before returning Home

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Why did Chinese immigrants come to the US in the 19 century

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They were motivated by poverty and upheaval in the southern China

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Which of the following statements describes the Chinese immigrants to the United States in the 19 century?

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They faced more severe discrimination then European immigrants

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The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against the Chinese in the 19th century California by doing what?

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Barring Chinese immigrants to the United States in 1882

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What factors were critical determinants of workers occupational opportunities in the late 19th and early 20th century

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Gender and race

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Which of the following was a 19th-century example of a trade union?

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The American Federation of labor

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Why has the labor movement always been relatively weak in American politics?

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Most industrial workers live in urban areas in cities, which are underrepresented in Congress

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The great strike of 1877 involved workers in what industry

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Rail Roads

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What did the railroad strike of 1877 in the Homestead strike of 1892 have in common?

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Government troops help put down both strikes

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Founded in 1867 the national Grange of patrons of husbandry did what?

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Sponsored events to improve the social life of farm families

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Which of the following policies did the greenback - Labour Party support in the 1870s?

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Inflation

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State Granger laws were designed primarily to what?

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Regulate big businesses

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And terms of membership, the Knights of labor discriminated what?

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Exclusion of the Chinese

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The Knights of labor advocated which of the following reforms in the 1878 platform?

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Workplace safety laws

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Why was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant?

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The incident led to the downfall of the Knights of labor

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And 1891 the Texas alliance proposed cooperative enterprise to what?

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Giving farmers access to cheap credit

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The Supreme Court decision that overturned Granger laws and Wabash versus Illinois (1886) lead to what?

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The creation of the interstate commerce commission

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What was the purpose of the hatch act, passed by Congress and Pres. Grover Cleveland and 1887?

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To provide federal funding for agriculture research and education

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Established in 1887 the interstate commerce commission (I CC) did what?

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Sued in court to force companies to reduce high rates

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Why was the American Federation of labor more successful than the Knights of labor in the late 19th century?

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The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working condition

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What is collective-bargaining?

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Union negotiates with the employer for all of the employees

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The outcome of the implementation of scientific management was what?

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Resistance from workers

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