Exam 18: The Age of the City

It can be said that Darwinism helped spawn the philosophy of pragmatism.

Henry Bowers's hatred of immigration led him to found the American ________.

By the turn of the century, primary and secondary education were nearly universal in the United States.

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from

The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by

In the early twentieth century, efforts to improve environmental problems in American cities

In the late nineteenth century, construction of the majority of great public buildings was paid for by wealthy residents.

In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by

Immigrant Americans were more likely to commit crimes than were native-born Americans.

Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas

In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

By the turn of the century, professional baseball and collegiate football were both important spectator sports.

The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897.

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

The census of 1920 revealed that for the first time in American history, a majority of Americans lived in ________ areas.

In late-nineteenth-century cities, it was not uncommon for the very wealthy to live in the heart of the city.

Tenement buildings in urban America were

Among the new immigrant arrivals to late nineteenth-century America, no single national group could be said to have dominated the scene.