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- 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
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