Exam 18: The Age of the City

In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were

Of the mass entertainment available at the turn of the century, the ________ was/were the most important.

When the first tenements were built in 1850, they were viewed as a great improvement in housing for the poor.

Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from

Into the power vacuum in America's cities swept the ________, one of America's most distinctive political institutions.

What attitudes and beliefs found in America resulted in little being done to improve urban poverty during the late nineteenth century?

Discuss the efforts to restrict immigration in the late nineteenth century.

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

The assimilation process of the late nineteenth century was aided by the public schools.

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

Prior to the late nineteenth century, few Americans placed much value in leisure.

Describe the key features one would find in a large urban American city at the end of the nineteenth century.

At the turn of the twentieth century, motion pictures

The artist ________, part of the Ashcan school, portrayed the dreariness of American urban slums.

In the late nineteenth century, most city parks were simply lands between houses and other buildings that had yet to be developed.

The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to