question

What late nineteenth-century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?

answer

c. The ascendancy of urban America.

question

In which American cities did the population exceed one million people by 1900?

answer

c. New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia .

question

Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?

answer

? b. European migration to the United States

question

Which of the following describes the world economy at the turn of the twentieth century?

answer

c. An industrial core, an agricultural domain, and a third world tied to the industrial core by economic colonialism

question

What circumstances enabled U.S. industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?

answer

d. railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.

question

After 1880, most new immigrants to America originated from ?

answer

d. eastern and southern Europe

question

Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

answer

a. They lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land

question

How did the process of mechanization affect U.S. industrialists hiring and employment practices in the late nineteenth century?

answer

a. It allowed industrialists to replace skilled laborers with lower-paid, unskilled immigrant laborers.

question

The racism directed at ethnic immigrant groups in America in the late nineteenth century?

answer

b. the perception that ethnic and religious differences were racial characteristics.

question

Some established immigrant groups viewed more recent immigrants as?

answer

a. not being a part of the white race.

question

Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s

answer

c. for economic opportunities and safety.

question

Congress approved a literacy test for immigrants in 1896?

answer

c. as a means of limiting the influx of uneducated people into the country

question

As middle-and upper-class urbanites moved to new areas of their cities, poor city dwellers?

answer

b.They stayed in the neighborhoods near the factories

question

What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling "How the Other Half Lives (1890)?

answer

c. He forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor.

question

Which group constituted the backbone of the American labor force throughout the nineteenth century?

answer

c. unskilled laborers

question

Working as a skilled craftsman in America in the late nineteenth century?

answer

b. it did not ensure financial security

question

Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century?

answer

b. by replacing skilled workers with machines.

question

Which of the following developments changed the U.S. garment industry in the 1850s?

answer

a. Independent tailors were replaced by sweatshop workers

question

Which of the following describes the economics survival of the nineteenth -century American working-class family?

answer

a. family's survival depended on the employment

question

How did the percentage of children under age fifteen working in the paid labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I?

answer

?b. it dropped

question

Where did married black women typically work to supplement their family in the late nineteenth century United States?

answer

a. Outside the home as domestics

question

How did business expansion and consolidation affect the social structure in the late nineteenth century United States?

answer

c. A new class of white male salaried managers emerged.

question

The direction of corporate goals and policies in the late nineteenth century was increasingly shaped by?

answer

d. Managers and executives

question

The advent of the adding machine, typewriter, and cash register had the greatest impact on ?

answer

b. literate white women.

question

Most white native-born women who worked at the end of the nineteenth century held ?

answer

c. Clerical jobs in offices

question

What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late nineteenth century United States?

answer

a. A new consumer culture

question

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was ?

answer

?b the result of a coalition of labor unions

question

What was the main lesson learned by workers from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

answer

a.They lacked power individually, but might gain it through a union

question

The Knights of Labor was?

answer

? a. An american labor organization founded in 1869 to protect the rights of workers (membership open to all workers Terrene Powerdly:Leader

question

During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for

answer

c.public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, equal pay for women, and the abolition of child labor.

question

Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor,

answer

c.focused on higher pay and better working conditions.

question

The Haymarket affair of 1886

answer

a. began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals.

question

Which of the following was an outcome of the Haymarket affair?

answer

c.Skilled workers turned toward the American Federation of Labor

question

Throughout much of the nineteenth century, middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they ?

answer

c. Exist within the private sphere of the household

question

How did live-in servants change households in the North by 1870?

answer

a. They enabled middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home

question

Beginning in the 1870s, American men of all classes were united in their passion for?

answer

a. baseball

question

In the late 1800s, Coney Island symbolized ?

answer

d. rise of mess entertainment in America.

question

What occurrence facilitated the emergence of the modern skyscraper emerged in the 1890s?

answer

b.the advent of structural steel

question

New York City's Central Park was planned to provide ?

answer

c.To create a natural oasis away from the busyness of the city

question

The public school system in American cities provided ?

answer

d. free tuition and open access to all children.

question

Late-nineteenth century American libraries?

answer

a. They made up the most extensive free public-library system in the world

question

Which of the following describes the advantages of American city life in the 1890s?

answer

d.The amenities were not easily available to the poor residents in the cities

question

By the turn of the twentieth century, most big-city governments were run ?

answer

c. by compromise and the accommodation of various powerful political forces

question

How did Detroit's reform mayor Hazen Pingree achieve political success in the 1890s?

answer

a. He followed the city bosses model of providing public works and social reform.

question

What was the White City, which was constructed in 1893 five miles down the shore from Chicago?

answer

? a. a shelter for Chicago's homeless and unemployed

ch 19 – History – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards