Chapter 18: Industry, Immigrants and Cities, 1870-1900 – Flashcards
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The aggressive tactics of John D. Rockefeller were supported by his
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financial alliance with investment banker JP morgan
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The pioneer of horizontal integration was
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Rockefeller
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focused on the problems of
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meatpacking
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The workplace of the late 1800s included which of the following conditions
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increased mechanization
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The use of sweatshops was most common in
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garment industry
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By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were
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not effectively enforced by authorities
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The Great Uprising of 1877 was a general strike against the nation's
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railway companies
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A major difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was
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membership of the knights was open to all workers
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Seven policemen and four workers were killed by a bomb at Haymarket Square in
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chicago
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The year 1886 saw the labor movement unify behind the move for
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getting the 8hr day
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According to your text, how many strikes were called in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries
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22,000
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A huge group of Jewish immigrants escaped from the pogroms in
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Russia
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The number of immigrants from northern and western Europe was highest around
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1880-1890
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Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half Lives focused on
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sordid life of the urban poor
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The American Protective Association specifically focused on
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limiting civil rights of catholic americans
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The term "Great Migration" refers to the
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mass movement of american black from rural south to urban north
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Stereotypes of blacks were reinforced
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by portrayals of black in vaudeville and film
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In 1900, the largest city in the United States was
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new york
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Residential suburbs were first populated by
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members of the middle class
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"Downtown" districts tended to include
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retail shops and financial institutions
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Which spectator sport was largely favored by the middle class at the turn of the century?
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professional baseball
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The term gilded age refers specifically to a time when
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materialistic excess and sharp social divisions existed
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After 1870,
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america inventiveness and tech progress flourished
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Before the industrial boom of the late 1800s,
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labor was done by artisians who controlled the pace of their labor
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An industrial owner who practiced horizontal integration
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bought out competitors in the same industry
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One disadvantage for American workers of the rise of corporations was
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corps now controlled conditions and nature of work
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One effect of workers being required to work long hours
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disrupts family life
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Regarding the increase of female workers, most Americans believed that
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a womans proper role was caring for home and family
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The purpose of the settlement house movement was to
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moderate poverty through neighborhood reconstruction
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Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism?
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"the laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both poor and rich"
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A turning point in the Pullman strike occurred when
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president Cleveland ordered federal troop to enforce court order against the strike
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Horatio Alger stories
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reinforced gospel of wealth ideas
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American workers were drawn to the American Federation of Labor's
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emphasis on collective bargaining
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Andrew Carnegie stated a differing view of the Gospel of Wealth by expressing that
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the affluent class should return some of their wealth to working class communities
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In the urban, working-class neighborhoods of the early twentieth century
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immigrants tended to live among people from the same homeland
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Immigration and migration patterns from 1880-1910 resulted in
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impressive growth of many cities
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Of the following groups that migrated to the United States in the late nineteenth century, which were motivated
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russian jews
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Francesco Barone's success in America led to
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chain migration of Sicilians to his new town
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Which of the following conditions in Italy was least important for Italians deciding to migrate in the late nineteenth century
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too high mortality rate
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In the latter part of the nineteenth century, countries that attracted migrants usually
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had growing industrial academies
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Of the following, the last to enter the "middle class" in America was the
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factory supervisor
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Coney Island in New York served as an optimal example of Americans' love for
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amusement park and tech wonders
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Joseph Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst capitalized on the middle class's taste for
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getting news in an easy to read format
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An effect of the rise of corporations in America was
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stimulation of capital investment and tech advances
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Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist
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"The nation's purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners."
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new middle class
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pioneered national social trends
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