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What late 19 century development the New York City Brooklyn bridge symbolize?

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The ancendary of urban America

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By 1900, the population in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia had each growing to exceed

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1 million

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

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European migration to the US

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Which of the following describes the world economy at the turn of the 20th century?

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And industrial core, and Agre mean, in a Third World tie to the industrial Court by economic colonialism

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What circumstances enable US industrialist to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?

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Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants

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After 1880, most new immigrants to America originated from

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Eastern and Southern Europe

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

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Lived in cities because jobs were available there and did not have money to buy land

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How did the most new woman immigrants to come to United States in the late 19th century

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As wives mothers and daughters

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The racism directed that immigrant groups in America in the late 19 century

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The perception that ethnic and religious differences were racial characteristics

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In the late 19th century, some established immigrant groups viewed more recent immigrants as

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Not being part of the white race

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Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s

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For economic opportunities in safety

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Which statement describes the immigrant experience in the late 19th century American cities

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Discriminated because of ethnicities

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Why did Congress Approve a literacy test for immigrants in 1896?

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As means of limiting the influence of uneducated people into the country

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Along with the horse car, which mode of transportation first allowed the late 19th century cities to expand into the suburbs?

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Electric street cars

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As middle and upper-class urbanites move to new areas of their cities in the late 19th century, poor city dwellers

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Stayed in the neighborhood near the factories, Rich moved out

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What did Jacob rise achieve with his best selling how the other halves?

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He forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degradation of renlidy of the poor

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Which group constituted the backbone of the American labor force throughout the 19th century?

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Common laborers

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Working as a skilled craftsmen in America in the late 19th century

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Did not ensure financial security

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Employer sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late 19th century

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By replacing skilled workers with machines

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Which of the following developments change the US garment industry in the 1850s

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Independent Taylors were replaced by sweatshop workers

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Which of the following describes the economic survival of the 19th century American working-class family?

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Family survival depended on the employment

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How did the percentage of children under age 15 working in the pay labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I

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It increase dramatically

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Where did the married black women typically work to supplement their family income in the late 19 century United States

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Outside the home as domestics

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How did business expansion in consolidation affect the social structure in the late 19 century United States

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A new class of white males salaried managers emerged

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The direction of corporate goals and policies in the late 19 century was increasingly shaped by

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Managers and executives

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

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Illiterate white women

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Most nativeborn white women who worked at the end of the 19th-century held

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Clerical jobs in offices

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What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late 19 century United States

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A new consumer culture

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What was the great railroad strike of 1877?

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An unorganized event

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What was the main lesson learned by workers from the great railroad strike of 1877?

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Lacked power individually, but might gain it through a union

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What was the Chicago school of the late 19 century?

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Provided education for aspiring architects

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During the 1880s, the knights of labor advocated for

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Public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, equal pay for women, in the abolition of child labor

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What happened to the world's Columbian exposition site after its closest stores on in October 9, 1894

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Worlds Fair held in Chicago in 1993, millions of fairgoers visited the fabulous grounds that came to known as the White City.

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What was the white city which was constructed in 1893, 5 miles down from the shore from Chicago?

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World exposition center

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By the turn of the 20th century, most big city governments were run

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By compromise in the commentation of various powerful political forces

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In the post-Civil War United States, a city boss was

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A professional politician who provided public works in social services for new residents

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

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We're not easily available to the poor residence in the cities

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Which statement describes the late 19th century American libraries?

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Made up the most expensive free public library system in the world

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What did the public school system in the late 19th century American cities provide?

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Free tuition in open access to our children

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New York City Central Park was planned to provide

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A natural oasis away from the busyness of the city

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What development led to the emergence of the modern skyscraper in the 1890s?

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Structural steel and invention of the elevators

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What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s

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Rise of mass entertainment in America

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

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Baseball

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Working-class courtship rituals in urban, industrial America in the late 19 century

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Consisted of informal meetings at dance halls in other commercial settings

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Throughout much of the 19th-century, middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they

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Existed in the household

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Which statement describes the Haymarket affair of 1886?

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Began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals

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

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But for higher wages and safety

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

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Skilled workers turn toward the American Federation of labor

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How did live in servants change household in the north by 1870?

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Enable middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home.

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What was the knights of labor?

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An American labor organization founded in 1869 to protect the workers rights.

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