Exam 18: The Age of the City

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York City's ________.

The ________ school of artists was among the first in America to appreciate expressionism and abstraction.

How and why did American attitudes change during the nineteenth century regarding leisure activities?

At the end of the nineteenth century, the population density of Manhattan was higher than that of the most crowded cities of Europe.

How had the demographics of immigrants and the patterns of immigration shifted between the 1860s and the 1890s?

By the end of the nineteenth century, most public high schools readily accepted women.

In what ways did mass entertainment in the late nineteenth century perpetuate racial, class, and gender distinctions? In what ways did it break down these distinctions?

In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was

Which statement about education in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

Theodore Dreiser's 1893 novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, dealt with

In the late nineteenth century, immigrants in the United States

Kate Chopin's shocking novel, ________, described a young wife and mother who abandoned her family in search of personal fulfillment.

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

The Equitable Building in New York City, completed in 1870, was the first in the United States to

Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to

In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

The nation's most popular amusement park at the turn of the century was ________.

Reform organizations of the late nineteenth century proved to be more permanent than the urban political machines.