Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-evolution

Accepted Answer

Evolution is a fundamental concept in bi

Question 2

New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because

Accepted Answer

A)  most Americans considered Italian, Greek, or Jewish culture inferior to their own. 
B)  many New Immigrants attempted to convert Americans to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or Judaism. 
C)  in many New Immigrant families, women were kept in distinctly subordinate roles. 
D)  New Immigrants were often more politically loyal to their homelands than to the United States. 
E)  their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical. 
A)  most Americans considered Italian, Greek, or Jewish culture inferior to their own. 
B)  many New Immigrants attempted to convert Americans to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, or Judaism. 
C)  in many New Immigrant families, women were kept in distinctly subordinate roles. 
D)  New Immigrants were often more politically loyal to their homelands than to the United States. 
E)  their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical.

Question 3

In what ways did religion begin to address the issues facing urban American society,and in what ways was it increasingly confined to a private and personal sphere?

Accepted Answer

Religion began to address the issues fac

Question 4

By 1900,American cities were becoming

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A)  heavily populated. 
B)  segregated by race and ethnic group. 
C)  segregated by occupation. 
D)  geographically compact. 
E)  more homogeneous. 
A)  heavily populated. 
B)  segregated by race and ethnic group. 
C)  segregated by occupation. 
D)  geographically compact. 
E)  more homogeneous.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Tuskegee Institute

Accepted Answer

The Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tus

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Salvation Army

Accepted Answer

The Salvation Army is a Christian denomi

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Macy's/Marshall Field's

Accepted Answer

Macy's and Marshall Field's are both ico

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-William F.Cody

Accepted Answer

William F. Cody, also known as Buffalo B

Question 9

Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

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A)  the corruption of city government. 
B)  low industrial wages. 
C)  the degradation of life in American cities. 
D)  importing alien social and economic doctrines. 
E)  the rising American divorce rate. 
A)  the corruption of city government. 
B)  low industrial wages. 
C)  the degradation of life in American cities. 
D)  importing alien social and economic doctrines. 
E)  the rising American divorce rate.

Question 10

In the course of the late nineteenth century

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A)  the birthrate increased. 
B)  the divorce rate fell. 
C)  family size gradually declined. 
D)  people tended to marry at an earlier age. 
E)  children were seen as a greater economic asset. 
A)  the birthrate increased. 
B)  the divorce rate fell. 
C)  family size gradually declined. 
D)  people tended to marry at an earlier age. 
E)  children were seen as a greater economic asset.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-The Origin of Species

Accepted Answer

"The Origin of Species," formally known

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Lyrics of Lowly Life

Accepted Answer

The Lyrics of Lowly Life is a collection

Question 13

General Lewis Wallace's book,Ben Hur

Accepted Answer

A)  achieved success only after his death. 
B)  was based on a popular early movie. 
C)  emphasized that virtue, honesty, and hard work were rewarded by success. 
D)  detailed Wallace's experiences in the Civil War. 
E)  defended Christianity against Darwinism. 
A)  achieved success only after his death. 
B)  was based on a popular early movie. 
C)  emphasized that virtue, honesty, and hard work were rewarded by success. 
D)  detailed Wallace's experiences in the Civil War. 
E)  defended Christianity against Darwinism.

Question 14

How did the new urban forms of sports and recreation reflect both the greater opportunities and the greater stresses of big-city life?

Accepted Answer

The new urban forms of sports and recrea

Question 15

The New Immigrants who came to America after 1880

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A)  were mostly poor European urban workers. 
B)  were usually literate. 
C)  were from southern and eastern Europe. 
D)  tended to settle in northeastern cities. 
E)  were largely Roman Catholic or Jewish. 
A)  were mostly poor European urban workers. 
B)  were usually literate. 
C)  were from southern and eastern Europe. 
D)  tended to settle in northeastern cities. 
E)  were largely Roman Catholic or Jewish.

Question 16

Prominent Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

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A)  the ancient Bible should be replaced by more modern scientific sociology and social theory. 
B)  the Christian Gospel required that churches address poverty and other burning social issues of the day. 
C)  the churches were in danger of being taken over by anti-intellectual fundamentalism. 
D)  it was up to women to lead the church in an age of industrial democracy. 
E)  the clergy should become the advance guard of a militant working class revolution. 
A)  the ancient Bible should be replaced by more modern scientific sociology and social theory. 
B)  the Christian Gospel required that churches address poverty and other burning social issues of the day. 
C)  the churches were in danger of being taken over by anti-intellectual fundamentalism. 
D)  it was up to women to lead the church in an age of industrial democracy. 
E)  the clergy should become the advance guard of a militant working class revolution.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"birds of passage"

Accepted Answer

"Birds of passage" is a term that histor

Question 18

Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in

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A)  stock speculators and financiers who manipulated the price of real goods and services. 
B)  labor unions that artificially drove up the prices of wages and therefore goods. 
C)  landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values. 
D)  businesspeople who gained excessive profits by exploiting workers. 
E)  patriarchal ideologies that regarded women as inferior domestic beings. 
A)  stock speculators and financiers who manipulated the price of real goods and services. 
B)  labor unions that artificially drove up the prices of wages and therefore goods. 
C)  landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values. 
D)  businesspeople who gained excessive profits by exploiting workers. 
E)  patriarchal ideologies that regarded women as inferior domestic beings.

Question 19

Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except

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A)  opposed to factory labor. 
B)  used as strikebreakers. 
C)  willing to work for lower wages. 
D)  difficult to unionize. 
E)  non-English speaking. 
A)  opposed to factory labor. 
B)  used as strikebreakers. 
C)  willing to work for lower wages. 
D)  difficult to unionize. 
E)  non-English speaking.

Question 20

One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

Accepted Answer

A)  decline in farm income. 
B)  stresses of urban life. 
C)  emerging feminist movement. 
D)  passage of more liberal divorce laws. 
E)  decline of religious organizations. 
A)  decline in farm income. 
B)  stresses of urban life. 
C)  emerging feminist movement. 
D)  passage of more liberal divorce laws. 
E)  decline of religious organizations.

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -evolution

New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because

In what ways did religion begin to address the issues facing urban American society,and in what ways was it increasingly confined to a private and personal sphere?

By 1900,American cities were becoming

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Tuskegee Institute

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Salvation Army

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Macy's/Marshall Field's

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William F.Cody

Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

In the course of the late nineteenth century

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Origin of Species

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lyrics of Lowly Life

General Lewis Wallace's book,Ben Hur

How did the new urban forms of sports and recreation reflect both the greater opportunities and the greater stresses of big-city life?

The New Immigrants who came to America after 1880

Prominent Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"birds of passage"

Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in

Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except

One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

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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