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One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because:

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it allowed larger numbers of people to become commuters and live away from the central city

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by 1900's all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit EXCEPT:

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gasoline-powered buses

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Tenement houses in New York City:

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Had higher mortality rates than among the general population

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As a result of overcrowding, sanitation, and ventilation problems in tenements:

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the mortality rates among the urban poor was much higher than the general population

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What do cholera,typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common?

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They were all water related diseases

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One of the advantages of the large amount of animal waste generated in early cities was that it:

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fertilized vegtable farms outside major cities

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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

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New York City

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After 1890, most immigrants were:

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from southern and eastern Europe

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"Nativists" believed:

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immigration threatened traditional American Culture

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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:

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orriginally called for a ten-year term

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Middle and upper class urban families spent much of their leisure time:

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together at home playing games or reading books

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Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT:

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serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet women

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Why did so many of the urban working poor often seek recreation and leisure on street corners and front stoops?

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the did not have sufficient free time or money to enjoy many of the other leisure and entertainment options

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Frederick Law Olmsted is most famous for designing:

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great urban parks in America

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All of the following emerged as popular spectator sports with ass appeal in urban areas in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:

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shuffleboard

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Dr. James Naismith invented:

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the game of basketball

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The first professional baseball team was the:

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The Cincinnati Red Stockings

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As America industrialized and immigration increased, access to secondary education in the United States:

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expanded drastically

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The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890:

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established and funded land-grant colleges

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Which of the following statements about the expansion of American high education in the late nineteenth century is accurate

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colleges remained largely male bastions, but women's access to higher education improved markedly

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a strict Darwinist would object to all of the following EXCEPT

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a government policy of "hands off" in regard to business

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William Graham Sumner:

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argued in his book Folkways that is was a mistake for the government to interfere with established customs

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Though both embraced "pragmatism" William James and John Dewey differed in their approaches to philosophizing because:

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Dewey through himself into progressive social movements, while James did not

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John Dewey's "instrumentalism"

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said that ideas were instruments for action

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The main idea of reform Darwinism was that:

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cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress

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Baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in nineteenth century America because?

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People of all social classes attended the games

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In the late nineteenth century, the least likely place you would find a woman spending her leisure time was at a?

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Saloon

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The Hampton Institute in Virginia, which trained Booker T. Washington after the Civil War, is an example of that era's attention to:

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increasing the emphasis placed on vocational education

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Why did the U.S. government open Ellis Island?

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It was part of a federal effort to take charge of admitting immigrants to the country in light of the corruption that afflicted the city of New York's system.

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Women's access to higher education by the end of the century had done what:

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expanded significantly to the point that women made up one-third of all college students

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All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities EXCEPT

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the banishment of animals to outside city limits

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The first women's college to teach by the same standards as the best of the men's colleges was

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Vassar

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Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?

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the Far West

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Why was the development of cast-iron and steel-frame construction techniques significant to the growth of cities?

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They allowed developers to erect high-rise buildings.

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By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit

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subways, electric trolleys, cable cars, elevated trains

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With the move of American cities toward regular trash-collection services, by 1900 what percentage of cities provided this service?

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94 percent

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The public health officials and municipal engineers that tried to clean up the city and its public health dangers were called:

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sanitary reformers

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In 1890, New York City had twice as many Irish as:

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Dublin

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The American Protective Association:

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Was a nativist group strongest in the upper Mississippi Valley

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All of the following motivated nativists:

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anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic sentiments beliefs in the superiority of earlier generations of immigrants convictions that Slavic, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants were inferior alarm that immigrants were taking jobs away from Americans

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Angel Island was:

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the equivalent of Ellis Island located offshore from San Francisco

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All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities:

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overflowing garbage, untreated sewage, contaminated water, overcrowding

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Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 significant in American Immigration history?

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It was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class

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All of the following statements about newspapers in the 19th century are true EXCEPT

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They usually did not support either of the political parties

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Vaudeville Shows were popular because:

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They included something to please every taste, social class, and type.

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Facing severe restrictions in their free time, married working women often

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found fellowship with other women on the public streets while tending to other responsibilities

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Young, urban women eager for recreating often encountered far more obstacles then men because

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parents and authorities tried to limit their access to "cheap amusements"

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Baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in the 19th century America because:

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people of all social classes attended the games

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All of the following statements about football are true EXCEPT:

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It was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts

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The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflected the desire to

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Americanize immigrant children

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