Question 1

Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Basketball 
B)  Bicycling 
C)  Croquet 
D)  College football 
E)  Baseball 
A)  Basketball 
B)  Bicycling 
C)  Croquet 
D)  College football 
E)  Baseball

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Lewis Wallace

Accepted Answer

Lewis Wallace, also known as Lew Wallace

Question 3

In 1900,the two largest cities in the world were

Accepted Answer

A)  Buenos Aires and Mexico City. 
B)  Paris and London. 
C)  Shanghai and Calcutta. 
D)  London and New York City. 
E)  Berlin and Madrid. 
A)  Buenos Aires and Mexico City. 
B)  Paris and London. 
C)  Shanghai and Calcutta. 
D)  London and New York City. 
E)  Berlin and Madrid.

Question 4

The growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of

Accepted Answer

A)  the new immigrants. 
B)  big business. 
C)  the poor and working classes. 
D)  middle class women. 
E)  industrial labor unions. 
A)  the new immigrants. 
B)  big business. 
C)  the poor and working classes. 
D)  middle class women. 
E)  industrial labor unions.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-dime novels

Accepted Answer

Dime novels were a form of popular liter

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"America letters"

Accepted Answer

"America letters" refer to the personal

Question 7

A sign of increasing diversity,by the late 1890s the number of religious denominations in America topped

Accepted Answer

A)  50. 
B)  75. 
C)  100. 
D)  150. 
E)  200. 
A)  50. 
B)  75. 
C)  100. 
D)  150. 
E)  200.

Question 8

American cities increasingly abandoned wooden construction for brick and steel in their downtown districts after

Accepted Answer

A)  the great Chicago fire of 1871. 
B)  the development of the electric elevator and the skyscraper. 
C)  brickmaking became cheaper and iron was superseded by more durable steel for construction purposes. 
D)  Architects like Louis Sullivan preferred to design steel and brick structures. 
E)  wooden tenements collapsed in the new York inner city in the 1880s. 
A)  the great Chicago fire of 1871. 
B)  the development of the electric elevator and the skyscraper. 
C)  brickmaking became cheaper and iron was superseded by more durable steel for construction purposes. 
D)  Architects like Louis Sullivan preferred to design steel and brick structures. 
E)  wooden tenements collapsed in the new York inner city in the 1880s.

Question 9

The move to cities led to what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?

Accepted Answer

A)  Delayed marriages 
B)  Fragmented family life 
C)  More waste and the need for waste disposal 
D)  An emphasis on thrift 
E)  Increased wealth 
A)  Delayed marriages 
B)  Fragmented family life 
C)  More waste and the need for waste disposal 
D)  An emphasis on thrift 
E)  Increased wealth

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Joseph Pulitzer

Accepted Answer

Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American

Question 11

Edward Bellamy's novel,Looking Backward,inspired numerous late-nineteenth-century social reformers by

Accepted Answer

A)  demonstrating that women's work in the home was seriously undervalued. 
B)  showing how a single tax on land speculation would end poverty. 
C)  portraying the sufferings of an immigrant worker in Chicago's stockyard meat industry. 
D)  showing the hypocrisy of the urban wealthy. 
E)  portraying a utopian America in the year 2000, where nationalized industry had solved all social problems. 
A)  demonstrating that women's work in the home was seriously undervalued. 
B)  showing how a single tax on land speculation would end poverty. 
C)  portraying the sufferings of an immigrant worker in Chicago's stockyard meat industry. 
D)  showing the hypocrisy of the urban wealthy. 
E)  portraying a utopian America in the year 2000, where nationalized industry had solved all social problems.

Question 12

Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

Accepted Answer

A)  political oppression. 
B)  famine. 
C)  the political disintegration of their country. 
D)  the military draft. 
E)  the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy. 
A)  political oppression. 
B)  famine. 
C)  the political disintegration of their country. 
D)  the military draft. 
E)  the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy.

Exam 25: America Moves to the City,1865-1900

Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lewis Wallace

In 1900,the two largest cities in the world were

The growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -dime novels

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"America letters"

A sign of increasing diversity,by the late 1890s the number of religious denominations in America topped

American cities increasingly abandoned wooden construction for brick and steel in their downtown districts after

The move to cities led to what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Joseph Pulitzer

Edward Bellamy's novel,Looking Backward,inspired numerous late-nineteenth-century social reformers by

Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

New World Beginnings,33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America,1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century,1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775

The Duel for North America,1608-1763

The Road to Revolution,1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism,1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840

Forging the National Economy,1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy,1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861

Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution,1865-1896

Empire and Expansion,1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt,1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

The War to End War,1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939

Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941

America in World War II,1941-1945

The Cold War Begins,1945-1952

The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,1992-2009

The American People Face a New Century

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