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1 | + | 1. The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was |
2 | d) a trend that affected Europe as well | |
3 | ||
4 | 2. The major factor in drawing country people off the farms into the big cities was | |
5 | b) the availability of industrial jobs | |
6 | ||
7 | 3. One of the early symbols of the dawning of consumerism in urban America was | |
8 | e) the rise of large department stores | |
9 | ||
10 | 4. Which of the following has the least in common with the other four? | |
11 | c) bedroom communities | |
12 | ||
13 | 5. The New Immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1880 | |
14 | c) were culturally different from previous immigrants | |
15 | ||
16 | 6. Most Italian immigrants to the U.S. between 1880 and 1920 came to escape | |
17 | e) the poverty and slow modernization of southern Italy | |
18 | ||
19 | 7. A ‘bird of passage’ was an immigrant who | |
20 | d) came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe | |
21 | ||
22 | 8. Most New Immigrants | |
23 | b) tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America | |
24 | ||
25 | 9. According to the social gospel, | |
26 | e) the lessons of Christianity should be applied to solve the problems manifest in slums and factories | |
27 | ||
28 | 10. The early settlement house workers, such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelley, helped to blaze the professional trail for | |
29 | b) social workers | |
30 | ||
31 | 11. Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities except | |
32 | d) instruction in socialism | |
33 | ||
34 | 12. The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was | |
35 | a) the big city | |
36 | ||
37 | 13. In the 1890s, positions for women secretaries, as department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for | |
38 | e) the native born | |
39 | ||
40 | 14. Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except | |
41 | a) opposed to factory labor | |
42 | ||
43 | 15. The American Protective Association | |
44 | c) supported immigration restrictions | |
45 | ||
46 | 16. The religious denomination that responded most favorable to the New Immigration was | |
47 | a) Roman Catholics | |
48 | ||
49 | 17. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution | |
50 | e) cast serious doubt on a literal interpretation of the Bible | |
51 | ||
52 | 18. Religious Modernists | |
53 | a) found ways to reconcile Christianity and Darwinism | |
54 | ||
55 | 19. Americans offered growing support for a free public education system | |
56 | c) because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens | |
57 | ||
58 | 20. Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was | |
59 | e) economic independence | |
60 | ||
61 | 21. The post-Civil War era witnessed | |
62 | a) an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws | |
63 | ||
64 | 22. As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington | |
65 | d) grudgingly acquiesced to segregation | |
66 | ||
67 | 23. That a ‘talented tenth’ of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of | |
68 | d) W.E.B. DuBois | |
69 | ||
70 | 24. The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 | |
71 | e) granted public lands to states to support higher education | |
72 | ||
73 | 25. Black leader Dr. W.E.B. DuBois | |
74 | a) demanded complete equality for African Americans | |
75 | ||
76 | 26. In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women | |
77 | c) became much more common | |
78 | ||
79 | 27. Which of the following schools became a prominent scholarly academic institution for African Americans in the late 1800s | |
80 | a) Howard University | |
81 | ||
82 | 28. During the industrial revolution, life expectancy | |
83 | d) measurably increased | |
84 | ||
85 | 29. The philosophy of pragmatism maintains that ______________ is/are important. | |
86 | b) the practical consequences of an idea | |
87 | ||
88 | 30. In a country hungry for news, American newspapers | |
89 | e) became sensationalist | |
90 | ||
91 | 31. Henry George found the root of social inequality and social injustice in | |
92 | c) landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values | |
93 | ||
94 | ||
95 | 32. Henry George argued that the unearned windfall profits of those who did not work for them should be | |
96 | a) confiscated by government taxation | |
97 | ||
98 | 33. General Lewis Wallace’s book Ben Hur | |
99 | e) defended Christianity against Darwinism | |
100 | ||
101 | 34. Match each of these late 19th century writers with the theme of his work. | |
102 | A. Lewis Wallace | |
103 | B. Horatio Alger | |
104 | C. Henry James | |
105 | D. William Dean Howells | |
106 | ||
107 | 1) success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work | |
108 | 2) anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures | |
109 | 3) contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism | |
110 | 4) psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women | |
111 | ||
112 | c) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 | |
113 | ||
114 | ||
115 | 35. American novel-writing turned from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged realism as a result of the | |
116 | d) materialism of industrial society | |
117 | ||
118 | 36. The Comstock Law was intended to advance the cause of | |
119 | e) sexual purity | |
120 | ||
121 | 37. In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except | |
122 | c) the fact that Americans were marrying at an earlier age | |
123 | ||
124 | 38. In the course of the late 19th century, | |
125 | c) family size gradually declined | |
126 | ||
127 | 39. By 1900, advocates of women’s suffrage | |
128 | d) argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world | |
129 | ||
130 | 40. One of the most important factors in leading to an increased divorce rate in the late 19th century was the | |
131 | b) stresses of urban life | |
132 | ||
133 | 41. The National American Women Suffrage Association | |
134 | e) limited its membership to whites | |
135 | ||
136 | 42. The subject of the 18th Amendment was | |
137 | d) prohibition | |
138 | ||
139 | 43. The term Richardsonian in the late 19th century pertained to | |
140 | e) architecture | |
141 | ||
142 | 44. During industrialization, Americans increasingly | |
143 | d) fell into the ways of lockstep living | |
144 | ||
145 | 45. The various racial and ethnic groups in large cities, though living in different neighborhoods, shared which of the following activities? | |
146 | e) all of the above |