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Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?
a. The annexation of the rural areas surrounding America's major cities
b. The migration of people from the rural areas of Europe and the United States
c. The dramatic increase in the American
birthrate
d. The combination of a rising birthrate and urban annexation
b. The migration of people from the rural areas of Europe and the United States
What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s?
a. The power of the church to control mass entertainment
b. The Statue of Liberty's attraction for tourists
c. The importance of nature as a retreat from urban life
d. The rise of mass
entertainment in America
d. The rise of mass entertainment in Americ
New York City's Central Park was planned to provide
a. a series of playing fields for professional athletes.
b. a delivery route for businesses on the streets lining the park.
c. a natural oasis away from the busyness of the city.
d. a concentration of plant matter to ensure sufficient oxygen production
c. a natural oasis away from the busyness of the city.
Which statement describes late-nineteenth-century American libraries?
a. They made up the most extensive free public-library system in the world.
b. They were popular with laborers who took advantage of their free literacy programs.
c. They were found only in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City.
d. They were privately funded and open only to members who could
afford to pay.
a. They made up the most extensive free public-library system in the world.
What circumstances enabled U.S. industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?
a. Only immigrants were willing to work as hard as the industrialists demanded.
b. Native-born Americans refused to work for the low wages industrialists offered.
c. There were no political barriers to hiring
immigrants from northern Europe.
d. Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.
d. Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.
How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?
a. As wives, mothers, or daughters
b. As single, unskilled wage laborers
c. As single, skilled workers
d.
As part of educated, well-off families
a. As wives, mothers, or daughters
Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century
a. through the use of violence and intimidation.
b. by replacing people with machines.
c. by forbidding shop-floor workers from talking during the workday.
d. through hiring factory foremen to supervise every aspect of
production.
b. by replacing people with machines.
Which of the following describes the economic survival of the nineteenth-century American working-class family?
a. It depended on the employment of every family member.
b. It was assured as long as the male head of household was able to find a job.
c. It was assured as long as both parents worked outside the home.
d. It required the assistance of
local social service agencies.
a. It depended on the employment of every family member.
What was the main lesson learned by workers from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
a. They lacked power individually but might gain it through a union.
b. Workers would never be able to fight large corporations.
c. Strikes were not an effective way to gain the attention of authorities.
d. Higher wages could
be obtained through persistent and concerted action.
a. They lacked power individually but might gain it through a union.
What was the Knights of Labor?
a. The first mass organization for American workers
b. A group focused exclusively on native-born skilled workers
c. The only union to exclude blacks and women
d. A staunch ally of the American Federation of Labor
a. The first mass organization for American workers
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they
a. work outside the home to make ends meet.
b. integrate workplace and home as much as possible.
c. exist within the private sphere of the household.
d. extend their sphere of influence to include charity work
c. exist within the private sphere of the household.
Working-class courtship rituals in urban, industrial America in the late nineteenth century
a. remained remarkably similar to those of preindustrial America.
b. changed in that women met prospective husbands only through their families.
c. consisted of informal meetings at dance halls and other commercial settings.
d. favored working-class women who no longer had to rely on men to pay for
their entertainment
c. consisted of informal meetings at dance halls and other commercial settings.
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