Learning Curve Chapter 19 – Flashcards

Which subculture emerged in American cities in the late nineteenth century and offered a dramatic challenge to Victorian ideals?

What political boss made Tammany Hall a byword for corruption in the late nineteenth century?

Working separately in the 1880s and 1890s, researcher Helen Campbell and photographer Jacob Riis both sought to call attention to what problem?

Why were skyscrapers an impetus to urban development?

What were the political machines that played such a vital role in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

Why did New York State undertake serious workplace safety reforms after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911?

Why did most black men and women who migrated to the large cities of the North between 1880 and 1917 end up working in the service sector?

Which city suffered a terrible fire in 1871?

Why was the reform effort aimed at wiping out urban prostitution in the early twentieth century shortsighted?

This photograph shows a group of newsboys standing outside of an urban diner hawking their papers. Why might the Progressive reformer Lewis Hine have created this image?

How did the city of Chicago address its sewage problem around the turn of the century?

A week after the Triangle fire, the Rabbi Stephen S. Wise made this statement at a memorial service for the victims: "This was not an inevitable disaster which man could neither foresee nor control. We might have foreseen it, and some of us did; we might have controlled it, but we chose not to do so. . . . It is not a question of enforcement of law nor of inadequacy of law. We have the wrong kind of laws and the wrong kind of enforcement. Before insisting upon inspection and enforcement, let us lift up the industrial standards so as to make conditions worth inspecting, and, if inspected, certain to afford security to workers." What did New York State do in response to the public outrage expressed here over the Triangle fire tragedy?

The social geography of the suburbs in the late nineteenth century was in large part determined by which of the following factors?

What accounted for the popularity of ragtime music in the United States in the 1890s?

What impact did city politics have on immigrant communities in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

What was significant about the formation of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) in the early twentieth century?

The dominance of private development in U.S. cities and the preference for business solutions to city needs are expressed in what concept?

Which institution of progressivism offered a laboratory to experiment with solving social problems?

What was the ultimate basis for the cohesion of urban political machines?

Why did journalist Upton Sinclair write his 1904 novel The Jungle?

How did Henry Huntington expand the suburban ideal in southern California in the early twentieth century?

What prompted urban reform movements in the 1890s?

What did the New York Tammany ward boss George Washington Plunkitt mean by "honest graft"?

What did Florence Kelley hope to achieve through her leadership of the National Consumers' League (NCL)?

What distinguished the new "vertical aesthetic" of the Chicago school in the late nineteenth century?

Why did big cities in the United States become sites of manufacturing as well as finance and trade after the Civil War?

Which statement assesses the early-twentieth-century crusade against prostitution in the United States?

Why was Margaret Sanger indicted for publishing her newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" in the 1910s?

How did the early-twentieth-century campaign against prostitution affect prostitutes in many Americans cities at the time?

Which statement assesses the consequences of the Triangle fire in New York City in 1911?

Which statement describes living conditions in New York City's Eleventh Ward at the turn of the nineteenth century?

What prompted urban reform movements in the 1890s?

Working separately in the 1880s and 1890s, researcher Helen Campbell and photographer Jacob Riis both sought to call attention to what problem?

Who were the "muckrakers" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?

What was the key to the successful building of skyscrapers in American cities in the late nineteenth century?

Which of the following statements assesses the impact of New York's Tenement House Law of 1901 on the 44,000 tenements that existed at the time?

What were the political machines that played such a vital role in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

Which statement assesses the consequences of the Triangle fire in New York City in 1911?

After running their Chicago settlement house for a few years, what did Jane Addams and her colleagues believe the working-class people they served needed?

What allowed engineers and planners in the second half of the nineteenth century to develop a new urban geography in the United States?