Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association

Accepted Answer

The Young Men's Christian Association (Y

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Accepted Answer

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent

Question 3

Explain the statement that the late-nineteenth-century cities "grew up,out,and apart." Had you been alive at the time,what might have attracted you to the city? What might have caused you to stay there or to go back "down on the farm"?

Accepted Answer

The statement that late-nineteenth-centu

Question 4

The success of the public schools is best evidenced by

Accepted Answer

A)  the large numbers of students graduating from them. 
B)  the ways in which they helped assimilate massive numbers of immigrants. 
C)  the falling illiteracy rate to just over 10 percent by 1900. 
D)  the large numbers of average Americans going on to attend college. 
E)  the movement of men into the teaching profession. 
A)  the large numbers of students graduating from them. 
B)  the ways in which they helped assimilate massive numbers of immigrants. 
C)  the falling illiteracy rate to just over 10 percent by 1900. 
D)  the large numbers of average Americans going on to attend college. 
E)  the movement of men into the teaching profession.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Principles of Psychology

Accepted Answer

"Principles of Psychology" is a seminal

Question 6

The text's authors assert that "women were growing more independent in the urban environment of the cities" in the late nineteenth century.What did the city environment have to do with women's liberation,and what forms did their new independence take?

Accepted Answer

The city environment played a significan

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-World's Columbian Exposition

Accepted Answer

The World's Columbian Exposition, also k

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-The Red Badge of Courage

Accepted Answer

"The Red Badge of Courage" is a novel wr

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-American Protective Association

Accepted Answer

The American Protective Association (APA

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Thomas Eakins

Accepted Answer

Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) was an influen

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Henry George

Accepted Answer

Henry George (1839–1897) was an influent

Question 12

Settlement houses,such as Hull House,engaged in all of the following activities except

Accepted Answer

A)  child care. 
B)  instruction in English. 
C)  cultural activities. 
D)  evangelical religious instruction. 
E)  lobbying for social reform. 
A)  child care. 
B)  instruction in English. 
C)  cultural activities. 
D)  evangelical religious instruction. 
E)  lobbying for social reform.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Emily Dickinson

Accepted Answer

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was an Ameri

Question 14

When liberal Protestantism attempted to accommodate religion to modern science,it also tended to

Accepted Answer

A)  relegate religion to a private sphere of personal conduct and family life. 
B)  make Protestantism a powerful actor on the national political stage. 
C)  link religion to theories of racial superiority and imperialistic survival of the fittest. 
D)  try to prove that religion itself was rooted in scientific fact. 
E)  survive only in the universities and advanced intellectual circles. 
A)  relegate religion to a private sphere of personal conduct and family life. 
B)  make Protestantism a powerful actor on the national political stage. 
C)  link religion to theories of racial superiority and imperialistic survival of the fittest. 
D)  try to prove that religion itself was rooted in scientific fact. 
E)  survive only in the universities and advanced intellectual circles.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"form follows function"

Accepted Answer

"Form follows function" is a principle a

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Horatio Alger

Accepted Answer

Horatio Alger was a 19th-century America

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Looking Backward

Accepted Answer

"Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is a utopi

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-land-grant colleges

Accepted Answer

Land-grant colleges, also known as land-

Question 19

A bird of passage was an immigrant who

Accepted Answer

A)  passed quickly from eastern ports to the Midwest or West. 
B)  only passed through America on the way to Canada. 
C)  came to the United States looking for a wife. 
D)  came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe. 
E)  flew from job to job. 
A)  passed quickly from eastern ports to the Midwest or West. 
B)  only passed through America on the way to Canada. 
C)  came to the United States looking for a wife. 
D)  came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe. 
E)  flew from job to job.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Henry Street settlement house

Accepted Answer

The Henry Street Settlement House, found

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Explain the statement that the late-nineteenth-century cities "grew up,out,and apart." Had you been alive at the time,what might have attracted you to the city? What might have caused you to stay there or to go back "down on the farm"?

The success of the public schools is best evidenced by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Principles of Psychology

The text's authors assert that "women were growing more independent in the urban environment of the cities" in the late nineteenth century.What did the city environment have to do with women's liberation,and what forms did their new independence take?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -World's Columbian Exposition

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Red Badge of Courage

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -American Protective Association

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thomas Eakins

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Henry George

Settlement houses,such as Hull House,engaged in all of the following activities except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Emily Dickinson

When liberal Protestantism attempted to accommodate religion to modern science,it also tended to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"form follows function"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Horatio Alger

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Looking Backward

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -land-grant colleges

A bird of passage was an immigrant who

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Henry Street settlement house

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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