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The rise of cities and industry

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caused sweeping changes in all segments of American society

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The architect who invented the "skyscraper" was

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Louis H. Sullivan

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Building the new skyscrapers depended on the invention of

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steel girders

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The journalist who exposed How the Other Half Lives in urban tenements was

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Jacob Riis

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Tenement houses in cities were

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overcrowded firetraps

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Which of the following statements about late nineteenth-century immigrants is NOT true?

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Most were highly skilled craftsmen.

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In 1890, what percentage of New York City residents were of foreign birth or foreign parentage?

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80

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By the end of the nineteenth century, most immigrants arrived from

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southern and eastern Europe

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In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League demanded a literacy test for immigrants from

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southern and eastern Europe

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For most Americans, the new immigrants of the late nineteenth century

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were seen as threats to the future of society

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As the new immigrants enter American society,

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they clung to the customs of their native countries

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One consequence of the urban growth of the late nineteenth century was the development of

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powerful city political machines

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The most famous political machine of the late nineteenth century was

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Tammany Hall

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the suggestion being offered by Thomas Nast in the cartoon shown above?

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Massive political corruption is occurring in elections

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The most famous of the urban political bosses in the late nineteenth century was

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William Tweed

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An urban political boss who defended the political machine as philanthropy was

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George Washington Plunkitt

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Which of the following was NOT a reason urban political machines stayed in power?

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There was little regard for the political system.

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Which of the following statements about American life in the nineteenth century is NOT true?

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Medical science was still hopelessly locked into the past.

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In the Victorian code of morality,

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strict standards of behavior should be followed

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If an American became ill in the 1870s,

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home care would be the accepted form of treatment

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Most Americans in the 1880s

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were church-attending Protestants

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After the Civil War,

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reform movements remained active in American life

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The Cornstock Law

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legislated public morality

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What did the popularity of spectator sports indicate?

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the increased amount of leisure time

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The most popular spectator sport in the late nineteenth century was

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baseball

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The middle-class American family of the late nineteenth century

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became more isolated from the world of work

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The New Woman

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developed from the economic changes of the times

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All of the following observations can be correctly drawn fro the cartoon printed above EXCEPT:

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Women had successfully achieved the right to vote.

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In the late nineteenth century,

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most women took advantage of the economic changes

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The common-law doctrine of femme couverte

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was revised to adapt to the changes of the period

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How many states and territories in the United States required compulsory school attendance by 1900?

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31

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A founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was

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Susan B. Anthony

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Public schools in the 1870s and 1880s

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vigorously stressed discipline and routine

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A major difference between northern and southern schools was

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few southern states had compulsory school attendance laws

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As a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision,

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African American education was supposed to be separate but equal to white education

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A major change in the college curriculum of the late nineteenth century was to

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stress the practical application of education

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The German model of higher education stressed

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specialized research

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The ________________ gave large grants of land to states to establish agricultural colleges.

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Morril Land Grant Act

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The influential president of Harvard in the late 1800s was

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Charles W. Eliot

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The nation's first separate graduate school opened in 1876. It was

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John Hopkins University

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African Americans and other minorities

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were not encouraged to participate in new educational opportunities

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Booker T. Washington

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believed that self-help was the best plan for African Americans

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W. E. B. DuBois

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believed educational advancement was the key to success

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The Social Darwinists

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believed the laws of nature applied to society

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The leading American advocate of Social Darwinism was

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William Graham Sumner

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According to his theory, a "single tax" would have equalized wealth and raised revenue to aid the poor.

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Henry George

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According to Henry George,

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there was a wide gulf between rich and poor

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As a young lawyer, Clarence Darrow believed that

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without poverty there would be no crime

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________________________ wrote the book Looking Backward which looked forward to a future of socialism in America.

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Edward Bellamy

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Which of the following individuals was the most active leader of the Social Gospel?

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Washington Gladden

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A Social Gospel minister believed that

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the church must actively participate in society

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Jane Addams was the founder of

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Hull House in Chicago

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Sociologist Walter Wyckoff studied

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unskilled laborers

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