Question 1

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

Accepted Answer

A)  significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act. 
B)  were sometimes started by philanthropists that wanted to perpetuate their family names. 
C)  began to form relationships with the private sector and the government. 
D)  significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act, and began to form relationships with the private sector and government. 
E)  All these answers are correct. 
A)  significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act. 
B)  were sometimes started by philanthropists that wanted to perpetuate their family names. 
C)  began to form relationships with the private sector and the government. 
D)  significantly grew in number due to the Morrill Land Grant Act, and began to form relationships with the private sector and government. 
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 3

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

Accepted Answer

A)  led many city governments to create professional public police departments. 
B)  swelled in the twenty years between 1880 and 1900. 
C)  was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups. 
D)  was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups, and led many city governments to create professional public police departments. 
E)  All these answers are correct. 
A)  led many city governments to create professional public police departments. 
B)  swelled in the twenty years between 1880 and 1900. 
C)  was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups. 
D)  was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups, and led many city governments to create professional public police departments. 
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 4

Colleges and universities of the late nineteenth century benefited particularly from the ________ Act.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Colleges and universities of the late nineteenth...

Question 5

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

Accepted Answer

A)  did not exist. 
B)  had expanded significantly. 
C)  offered no coeducational opportunities. 
D)  allowed women to be schooled only by male faculty. 
E)  had no real effect on the marrying age of nineteenth-century women. 
A)  did not exist. 
B)  had expanded significantly. 
C)  offered no coeducational opportunities. 
D)  allowed women to be schooled only by male faculty. 
E)  had no real effect on the marrying age of nineteenth-century women.

Question 6

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

Accepted Answer

A)  were already experienced as urban-dwelling, industrial workers. 
B)  found the transition to their new country to be fairly easy. 
C)  formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities. 
D)  totally cut their links to their native countries. 
E)  read English-language newspapers and frequented chain stores. 
A)  were already experienced as urban-dwelling, industrial workers. 
B)  found the transition to their new country to be fairly easy. 
C)  formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities. 
D)  totally cut their links to their native countries. 
E)  read English-language newspapers and frequented chain stores.

Question 7

Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late-nineteenth-century reformers, little was done to improve the children's situations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

Colleges and universities of the late nineteenth century benefited particularly from the ________ Act.

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late-nineteenth-century reformers, little was done to improve the children's situations.

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Exam 18: The Age of the City

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

In the late nineteenth century, American universities

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

Colleges and universities of the late nineteenth century benefited particularly from the ________ Act.

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late-nineteenth-century reformers, little was done to improve the children's situations.

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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