1. The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was
d) a trend that affected Europe as well

2. The major factor in drawing country people off the farms into the big cities was
b) the availability of industrial jobs

3. One of the early symbols of the dawning of consumerism in urban America was
e) the rise of large department stores

4. Which of the following has the least in common with the other four?
c) bedroom communities

5. The New Immigrants who came to the U.S. after 1880
c) were culturally different from previous immigrants

6. Most Italian immigrants to the U.S. between 1880 and 1920 came to escape
e) the poverty and slow modernization of southern Italy

7. A ‘bird of passage’ was an immigrant who
d) came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe

8. Most New Immigrants
b) tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America

9. According to the social gospel,
e) the lessons of Christianity should be applied to solve the problems manifest in slums and factories

10. The early settlement house workers, such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelley, helped to blaze the professional trail for
b) social workers

11. Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities except
d) instruction in socialism

12. The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was
a) the big city

13. In the 1890s, positions for women secretaries, as department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for
e) the native born

14. Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except
a) opposed to factory labor

15. The American Protective Association
c) supported immigration restrictions

16. The religious denomination that responded most favorable to the New Immigration was
a) Roman Catholics

17. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
e) cast serious doubt on a literal interpretation of the Bible

18. Religious Modernists
a) found ways to reconcile Christianity and Darwinism

19. Americans offered growing support for a free public education system
c) because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens

20. Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was
e) economic independence

21. The post-Civil War era witnessed
a) an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws

22. As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington
d) grudgingly acquiesced to segregation

23. That a ‘talented tenth’ of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of
d) W.E.B. DuBois

24. The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
e) granted public lands to states to support higher education

25. Black leader Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
a) demanded complete equality for African Americans

26. In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women
c) became much more common

27. Which of the following schools became a prominent scholarly academic institution for African Americans in the late 1800s
a) Howard University

28. During the industrial revolution, life expectancy
d) measurably increased

29. The philosophy of pragmatism maintains that ______________ is/are important.
b) the practical consequences of an idea

30. In a country hungry for news, American newspapers
e) became sensationalist

31. Henry George found the root of social inequality and social injustice in
c) landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values


32. Henry George argued that the unearned windfall profits of those who did not work for them should be
a) confiscated by government taxation

33. General Lewis Wallace’s book Ben Hur
e) defended Christianity against Darwinism

34. Match each of these late 19th century writers with the theme of his work.
A. Lewis Wallace
B. Horatio Alger
C. Henry James
D. William Dean Howells

1) success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work
2) anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures
3) contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism
4) psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women

c) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3


35. American novel-writing turned from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged realism as a result of the
d) materialism of industrial society

36. The Comstock Law was intended to advance the cause of
e) sexual purity

37. In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except
c) the fact that Americans were marrying at an earlier age

38. In the course of the late 19th century,
c) family size gradually declined

39. By 1900, advocates of women’s suffrage
d) argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world

40. One of the most important factors in leading to an increased divorce rate in the late 19th century was the
b) stresses of urban life

41. The National American Women Suffrage Association
e) limited its membership to whites

42. The subject of the 18th Amendment was
d) prohibition

43. The term Richardsonian in the late 19th century pertained to
e) architecture

44. During industrialization, Americans increasingly
d) fell into the ways of lockstep living

45. The various racial and ethnic groups in large cities, though living in different neighborhoods, shared which of the following activities?
e) all of the above