NAME: ________________________
1. Where did the majority of immigrants come from in the 1840's-1880's?
__________________________________________________________________________
2. Where did the majority of immigrants begin to come from after the
1880's?
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3. What New York bridge was completed in 1883? ______________________________
MULTIPLE CHOICE
4. Settlement workers such as Jane Addams
a. tried to impose their Protestant beliefs on immigrant
newcomers 
and did little to deal with
the real problems of urban life.
b. genuinely wanted to improve the lives of slum
dwellers and made
valuable contributions to
inner-city life.
c. approached immigrants with an attitude of righteous
superiority
and made few meaningful
contributions.
d. assumed that immigrants should immediately discard
Old World customs.
5. Which of the following was often true of moral reformers?
a. They were especially sensitive to the needs of
the diverse people
inhabiting the cities.
b. They believed that cities were filled with sin
and depravity and
ultimately wanted to abolish
urban areas.
c. They failed to understand that the crusades they
launched were
often seen as interference
by others.
d. They recognized that it was futile to push moral
reforms in urban
areas.
6. By the early 20th. century, cities increasingly depended on engineers to
a. establish public health regulations for hospitals,
schools, and
restaurants.
b. establish efficient refuse removal and disposal
systems while
maintaining a pure, clean,
and safe water supply for urban residents.
c. design buildings that not only were beautiful
but would withstand
the elements and natural
disasters.
d. enforce regulations designed to reduce air and
water pollution
within the urban environment.
7. Which of the following appears to have caused the decline in the
birthrate in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
a. The spread of the wage-based urban economy
b. The decrease in the number of married couples
c. The increase in infant mortality rates
d. The climbing divorce rate
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8. The popularity of bicycling in the late 1800s led to
a. the formation of immigrant "bike gangs" that terrorized
neighborhoods
b. fear that the automobile and related industries
would be adversely
affected.
c. the founding of the asphalt paving industry in
America.
d. more practical and comfortable clothing styles
for women.
9. Which of the following is generally considered the most popular form
of 
entertainment in America in the early 1900s?
a. Comic opera
c. The minstrel show
b. Musical comedy
d. Vaudeville
10. Yellow journalism focused on
a. factual accuracy.
c. thoughtful editorials
b. sensationalism.
d. want ads
11. One of the hottest issues dividing native white Americans and
European immigrants was
a. whether God could be openly worshipped in a materialistic
society.
b. whether American cities had been a total mistake.
c. whether American cities had succeeded.
d. the use of leisure time and what to do on Sunday.
12. Which of the following is true of turn of the century American women?
a. Their economic standing was usually defined by
the men in their lives
b. They could not own property.
c. Their rights were no longer restricted by law.
d. They were as likely as men to experience occupational
advancement.
13. Settlement workers such as Jane Addams
a. tried to impose their Protestant beliefs on immigrant
newcomers
and did little to deal with
the real problems of urban life.
b. genuinely wanted to improve the lives of slum
dwellers and made
valuable contributions to
inner-city life.
c. approached immigrants with an attitude of righteous
superiority
and made few meaningful
contributions.
d. assumed that immigrants should immediately discard
Old World customs.
14. The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into
the big
cities was
a. the development of the skyscraper
b. the availability of industrial jobs
c. the compact nature of those large communities
d. the advent of a new housing structure known as
dumbbell tenements
15. One of the early symbols of the dawn of consumerism in urban America was
a. the development of factories
b. the Sears catalog
c. the rise of large department stores
d. public transportation systems
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16. Which of the following has least in common with the other three?
a. slums
c. bedroom communities
b. dumbbell tenements
d. flophouses
17. Most Italian immigrants who came to the United States between 1880
and
1920 came to escape
a. political oppression
b. famine
c. the political disintegration of their country
d. the poverty and slow modernization of southern
Italy
18. According to the Social Gospel
a. workers should be content with their station in
life
b. the church should not concern itself in the social
affairs of the
world
c. the lessons of Christianity should be applied
to solve the problems
manifest in slums and factories
d. Christianity would replace socialism
19. Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants
were
all of the following except
a. opposed to factory labor
c. used as strikebreakers
b. willing to work for lower wages
d. difficult to unionize
20. The religious denomination that responded most favorably to the
New
Immigration was
a. Roman Catholics
c. Episcopalians
b. Baptists
d. Christian Scientists
21. Americans began to support a free public education system
a. to combat the growing strength of Catholic parochial
schools
b. when the Chatauqua movement began to decline
c. because they accepted the idea that a free government
cannot function
without educated citizens
d. when private schools began to fold
22. Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil
rights
for African Americans was
a. the vote
b. economic independence
c. the rejection of accomodationist attitudes
d. to directly challenge white supremacy
23. The Morrill Act of 1862
a. established women's colleges like Vassar
b. required compulsory school attendance through
high school
c. granted public lands to states to support higher
education
d. mandated racial integration in public schools
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24. During the industrial revolution, life expectancy
a. decreased
c. was much higher in Europe than in the U.S.
b. changed very little
d. measurably increased
25. The philosophy of pragmatism maintains that _____ is important.
a. the logically correct formulation of a theory
b. the practical application of an idea
c. forgoing materialism in favor of high ideals
d. how you think, mow what you do
26. Henry George argued that the unearned windfall profits of those
who did
not work for them should be
a. confiscated by government taxation
b. distributed to public works through private philanthropy
c. save and invested by private bankers
d. looked upon as the inevitable consequence of
"the survival of the
fittest"
27. American novel-writing turned from romantic sentimentality to rugged
realism as a result of the
a. influence of Latin American literature
b. institution of slavery
c. higher educational level of the authors
d. materialism of industrial society
28. In the decades after the Civil War, the "new morality" was reflected
in
all of the following except
a. soaring divorce rates
b. the spreading practice of birth control
c. the fact that Americans were marrying at an earlier
age
d. increasingly frank discussion of sexual topics
29. Late nineteenth century feminists
a. argued that biology gave women a fundamentally
different character
from men
b. advocated an early version of day-care centers
c. temporarily abandoned the movement for woman
suffrage
d. lacked effective leadership and a sound rationale
for the social
involvement of women
30. the subject of the 18th. Amendment was 
a. income tax
c. woman suffrage
b. direct election of senators
d. prohibition
31. The term Richardsonian in the late 19th. century pertained to
a. sculpture b. novels c. paintings d. buildings