Exam 18: The Age of the City

Baseball was much like a game called "rounders," which was derived from the British game of ________.

Both baseball and football appealed primarily to working-class males.

The designers of New York City's Central Park

How did high culture and popular culture differ at the turn of the century?

Without immigration, American cities would have grown relatively slowly.

In the 1880s, JohnA. Roebling completed the ________, a great technological transportation marvel in New York City.

The most famously corrupt city boss, who presided over New York City's ________, was William M. Tweed.

Compared to most other immigrant ethnic groups in the late nineteenth century, Jewish immigrants

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers

The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan school"

Coney Island provided a way of experiencing mass American culture on an equal footing with people from different backgrounds.

Efforts to restrict the numbers of immigrants coming into the United States had met with little success by the end of the nineteenth century.

What major problems or needs of large urban centers were improved or eliminated by new technology and science during the late nineteenth century?

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

In 1876, baseball teams banded together to form the ________.

During the early decades of the twentieth century, most Americans began to view leisure time as

The most profound intellectual development of the late nineteenth century was the widespread acceptance of the theory of ________.

Electric trolleys were in use in American cities before World War I.

________ was one of the few entertainment media open to black performers at the turn of the century.