Chapter 19 RC – Flashcards

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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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