Question 1

What was the key to Hull House's success in its anti-poverty mission?

Accepted Answer

A)  Establishing settlement houses where workers lived in the neighborhoods they serviced. 
B)  A philosophy that recognized the hardships of slum life as often being beyond the individual's control. 
C)  Its emphasis on creating a social center with art and educational programs and a nursery. 
D)  All of these choices 
E)  None of these choices 
A)  Establishing settlement houses where workers lived in the neighborhoods they serviced. 
B)  A philosophy that recognized the hardships of slum life as often being beyond the individual's control. 
C)  Its emphasis on creating a social center with art and educational programs and a nursery. 
D)  All of these choices 
E)  None of these choices

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Pull factors, Push factors

Accepted Answer

Pull factors and push factors are terms

Question 3

How did the influx of immigrants before 1900 create an awareness of ethnic and class differences?

Accepted Answer

The influx of immigrants before 1900 cre

Question 4

In the late 1800s, education reformers such as William Torrey Harris advocated

Accepted Answer

A)  that the number of years children spend in school should be increased. 
B)  that teachers instill in students a sense of order and self-discipline. 
C)  that schools serve as models of precise schedules and punctuality to teach children how to become good factory workers. 
D)  All of these choices 
E)  None of these choices 
A)  that the number of years children spend in school should be increased. 
B)  that teachers instill in students a sense of order and self-discipline. 
C)  that schools serve as models of precise schedules and punctuality to teach children how to become good factory workers. 
D)  All of these choices 
E)  None of these choices

Question 5

Why did the New York campaigns against vice (gambling, prostitution, saloons) ultimately fail?

Accepted Answer

A)  They could not recruit enough volunteers. 
B)  Members of anti-vice organizations divided over strategy. 
C)  The city's population was too large and ethnically diverse for reformers to curb all the illegal activities. 
D)  They lacked the funds needed to mount a successful campaign. 
E)  All of these choices 
A)  They could not recruit enough volunteers. 
B)  Members of anti-vice organizations divided over strategy. 
C)  The city's population was too large and ethnically diverse for reformers to curb all the illegal activities. 
D)  They lacked the funds needed to mount a successful campaign. 
E)  All of these choices

Question 6

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that ragtime quickly become a national craze during the 1890s, especially among the working class?

Accepted Answer

A)  The music displayed a fresh originality. 
B)  It was considered to have catchy, freer and complex rhythms. 
C)  It originated in brothels and was associated with blacks. 
D)  It was played strictly for entertainment. 
E)  Listening to it was considered a good route to middle class respectability. 
A)  The music displayed a fresh originality. 
B)  It was considered to have catchy, freer and complex rhythms. 
C)  It originated in brothels and was associated with blacks. 
D)  It was played strictly for entertainment. 
E)  Listening to it was considered a good route to middle class respectability.

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Kate Chopin

Accepted Answer

Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty o

Question 8

Where was baseball the most popular?

Accepted Answer

A)  in the north because the integrated nature of baseball bothered many southerners. 
B)  in rural areas as people living in the country could best relate to the slow pace of the game. 
C)  in urban areas with large working-class populations. 
D)  in cities where the stadium was placed in middle-class neighborhoods. 
E)  in cities with large numbers of young adults. 
A)  in the north because the integrated nature of baseball bothered many southerners. 
B)  in rural areas as people living in the country could best relate to the slow pace of the game. 
C)  in urban areas with large working-class populations. 
D)  in cities where the stadium was placed in middle-class neighborhoods. 
E)  in cities with large numbers of young adults.

Question 9

How were the new research universities of the late 19th century different from earlier colleges?

Accepted Answer

A)  They stressed the importance of teaching the classical subjects like Latin and Greek. 
B)  They focused on teaching science and math. 
C)  They offered courses in a wide variety of subject areas, established professional schools, and encouraged faculty members to pursue basic research. 
D)  They made conscientious efforts to have both male and female students. 
E)  They included health-related courses like physical education and sex education. 
A)  They stressed the importance of teaching the classical subjects like Latin and Greek. 
B)  They focused on teaching science and math. 
C)  They offered courses in a wide variety of subject areas, established professional schools, and encouraged faculty members to pursue basic research. 
D)  They made conscientious efforts to have both male and female students. 
E)  They included health-related courses like physical education and sex education.

Question 10

Which of the following statements accurately describes urban growth in the late 19th century.

Accepted Answer

A)  While Atlantic seaboard cities like New York and Boston grew dramatically, interior cities like Cincinnati did not. 
B)  The population of American cities grew on average 25 percent between the Civil War and 1900. 
C)  Urban areas remained about the same size as people tried to stay in more rural communities. 
D)  Urban populations grew dramatically with cities such as Chicago growing by over 400 percent. 
E)  City managers carefully planned and monitored urban growth before 1900. 
A)  While Atlantic seaboard cities like New York and Boston grew dramatically, interior cities like Cincinnati did not. 
B)  The population of American cities grew on average 25 percent between the Civil War and 1900. 
C)  Urban areas remained about the same size as people tried to stay in more rural communities. 
D)  Urban populations grew dramatically with cities such as Chicago growing by over 400 percent. 
E)  City managers carefully planned and monitored urban growth before 1900.

Question 11

How did the Victorian worldview shape standards of middle-class morality in the United States? How did it help to justify the middle-class style of life? What effect did it have on American women and the American working class? Why did a reaction set in against those attitudes and assumptions?

Accepted Answer

The Victorian worldview had a significan

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Tenements

Accepted Answer

Tenements refer to a type of urban housi

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Accepted Answer

Frances Willard was a prominent American

Question 14

In her work against drinking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances Willard

Accepted Answer

A)  headed the Woman's Christian Temperance Union that pursued various reform issues. 
B)  became the first woman to run for president. 
C)  campaigned on behalf of Christianity being declared the state religion of the United States. 
D)  fought against racial discrimination but supported gender segregation. 
E)  chaired the National Woman's Suffrage Party and fought for a woman's right to vote. 
A)  headed the Woman's Christian Temperance Union that pursued various reform issues. 
B)  became the first woman to run for president. 
C)  campaigned on behalf of Christianity being declared the state religion of the United States. 
D)  fought against racial discrimination but supported gender segregation. 
E)  chaired the National Woman's Suffrage Party and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Question 15

Josephine Shaw Lowell and the New York Charity Organization Society wanted

Accepted Answer

A)  the federal government to take responsibility for providing for the urban poor. 
B)  their aid recipients to move towards self-sufficiency. 
C)  all aid to the urban poor to be administered through their organization. 
D)  all aid to the indigent should be eliminated. 
E)  charity to be provided in a discreet way that avoided drawing attention to those who were receiving the aid. 
A)  the federal government to take responsibility for providing for the urban poor. 
B)  their aid recipients to move towards self-sufficiency. 
C)  all aid to the urban poor to be administered through their organization. 
D)  all aid to the indigent should be eliminated. 
E)  charity to be provided in a discreet way that avoided drawing attention to those who were receiving the aid.

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Indoor plumbing

Accepted Answer

Indoor plumbing refers to the system of

Question 17

The Salvation Army was

Accepted Answer

A)  a branch of the military formed to clean up the slums. 
B)  organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, temporary employment and morality to poor immigrant families. 
C)  a social-welfare organization based on new ideas of gently persuading the urban poor to adopt middle-class values. 
D)  organized by urban immigrants to police their own ghettos and improve living conditions. 
E)  formed to employ military tactics to force poor immigrants out of respectable middle class neighborhoods. 
A)  a branch of the military formed to clean up the slums. 
B)  organized along pseudo-military lines to provide food, shelter, temporary employment and morality to poor immigrant families. 
C)  a social-welfare organization based on new ideas of gently persuading the urban poor to adopt middle-class values. 
D)  organized by urban immigrants to police their own ghettos and improve living conditions. 
E)  formed to employ military tactics to force poor immigrants out of respectable middle class neighborhoods.

Question 18

What form of theatrical entertainment drew the largest audiences in late-nineteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Vaudeville 
B)  Opera 
C)  Shakespearean comedy 
D)  Burlesque 
E)  Brass band concerts 
A)  Vaudeville 
B)  Opera 
C)  Shakespearean comedy 
D)  Burlesque 
E)  Brass band concerts

Question 19

How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?

Accepted Answer

A)  It helped poor immigrants settle on western homesteads to relieve urban overcrowding. 
B)  It helped the urban poor purchase their own homes because of the belief that owning private property leads to the adoption of middle-class values. 
C)  It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor. 
D)  It was not being concerned about the urban poor's propensity for drinking and gambling. 
E)  It tried to keep immigrants "settled" indoors until they could behave like Americans. 
A)  It helped poor immigrants settle on western homesteads to relieve urban overcrowding. 
B)  It helped the urban poor purchase their own homes because of the belief that owning private property leads to the adoption of middle-class values. 
C)  It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor. 
D)  It was not being concerned about the urban poor's propensity for drinking and gambling. 
E)  It tried to keep immigrants "settled" indoors until they could behave like Americans.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Mark Twain

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L

Exam 19: Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life

What was the key to Hull House's success in its anti-poverty mission?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Pull factors, Push factors

How did the influx of immigrants before 1900 create an awareness of ethnic and class differences?

In the late 1800s, education reformers such as William Torrey Harris advocated

Why did the New York campaigns against vice (gambling, prostitution, saloons) ultimately fail?

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that ragtime quickly become a national craze during the 1890s, especially among the working class?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Kate Chopin

Where was baseball the most popular?

How were the new research universities of the late 19th century different from earlier colleges?

Which of the following statements accurately describes urban growth in the late 19th century.

How did the Victorian worldview shape standards of middle-class morality in the United States? How did it help to justify the middle-class style of life? What effect did it have on American women and the American working class? Why did a reaction set in against those attitudes and assumptions?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Tenements

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

In her work against drinking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances Willard

Josephine Shaw Lowell and the New York Charity Organization Society wanted

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Indoor plumbing

The Salvation Army was

What form of theatrical entertainment drew the largest audiences in late-nineteenth-century America?

How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Mark Twain

Native Peoples of America

The Rise of the Atlantic World

The Emergence of Colonial Societies

The Bonds of Empire

Roads to Revolution

Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood

Launching the New Republic

America at War and Peace

The Transformation of American Society

Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform

Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life

The Old South and Slavery

Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict

From Compromise to Secession

Crucible of Freedom: Civil War

Reconstruction and Resistance

The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West

The Rise of Industrial America

Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age

The Progressive Era

Global Involvements and World War I

Coping With Change

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Americans and a World in Crisis

The Cold War Abroad and at Home

America at Midcentury

Liberalism, Civil Rights, and War in Vietnam

A Time of Upheaval

A Conservative Revival and the End of the Cold War

A Changing Nation: Homefront Crises and New Global Realities

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How were the new research universities of the late 19^th century different from earlier colleges?

Which of the following statements accurately describes urban growth in the late 19^th century.