Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Walter Rauschenbusch

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Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was an

Question 2

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 3

Prominent liberal Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

Accepted Answer

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 federal government should address poverty and other economic and social issues affecting immigrants and poor people. 
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 federal government should address poverty and other economic and social issues affecting immigrants and poor people. 
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 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Carrie Chapman Catt

Accepted Answer

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – M

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

The World's Columbian Exposition, also k

Question 6

Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status, or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?

Accepted Answer

The new morality and rising frankness ab

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Sears/Montgomery Ward

Accepted Answer

Sears and Montgomery Ward were both majo

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Christian Science

Accepted Answer

Christian Science is a religious movemen

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Comstock Law

Accepted Answer

The Comstock Law, passed in the United S

Question 10

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

Accepted Answer

A)  the adoption of Socialism in the United States. 
B)  rigorous academic training. 
C)  the rejection of accommodationist attitudes. 
D)  to directly challenge white supremacy. 
E)  economic independence and education in agriculture and the trades. 
A)  the adoption of Socialism in the United States. 
B)  rigorous academic training. 
C)  the rejection of accommodationist attitudes. 
D)  to directly challenge white supremacy. 
E)  economic independence and education in agriculture and the trades.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Johns Hopkins University

Accepted Answer

Johns Hopkins University is a private re

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 2

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Stephen Crane

Accepted Answer

Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5

Question 14

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

Accepted Answer

A)  Slums 
B)  Dumbbell tenements 
C)  Bedroom communities 
D)  Flophouses 
E)  The "Lung Block" 
A)  Slums 
B)  Dumbbell tenements 
C)  Bedroom communities 
D)  Flophouses 
E)  The "Lung Block"

Question 15

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

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A)  helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 
B)  believed developing the economic and educational resources of the black community was secondary to achieving political equality. 
C)  discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut. 
D)  promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation directly. 
E)  shared a similar political philosophy with W.E.B. Du Bois. 
A)  helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 
B)  believed developing the economic and educational resources of the black community was secondary to achieving political equality. 
C)  discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut. 
D)  promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation directly. 
E)  shared a similar political philosophy with W.E.B. Du Bois.

Question 16

The intellectual development(s) that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

Accepted Answer

A)  growing feminist assault on theories of male superiority. 
B)  growing awareness of non-Christian religions. 
C)  rise of theories of white racial superiority. 
D)  rise of Socialism and anarchism. 
E)  biology of Charles Darwin. 
A)  growing feminist assault on theories of male superiority. 
B)  growing awareness of non-Christian religions. 
C)  rise of theories of white racial superiority. 
D)  rise of Socialism and anarchism. 
E)  biology of Charles Darwin.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-James Naismith

Accepted Answer

James Naismith was a Canadian-American p

Question 18

Which post-Civil War writers best reflected the social concerns of the new urban age? Which writers reflected a nostalgic interest in the American or European past? Which tendency do you admire most, and why?

Accepted Answer

The post-Civil War writers who best refl

Question 19

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)  portraying a utopian America in the year 2000, where nationalized industry had solved all social problems. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. 
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)  portraying a utopian America in the year 2000, where nationalized industry had solved all social problems. 
E)  None of these choices are correct.

Question 20

The vast majority of employed female workers in the late nineteenth century were

Accepted Answer

A)  married with children. 
B)  just arrived from the country. 
C)  single. 
D)  married but without children. 
E)  college-educated. 
A)  married with children. 
B)  just arrived from the country. 
C)  single. 
D)  married but without children. 
E)  college-educated.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Walter Rauschenbusch

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"?

Prominent liberal Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status, or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Sears/Montgomery Ward

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Christian Science

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Comstock Law

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Johns Hopkins University

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Stephen Crane

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

The intellectual development(s) that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -James Naismith

Which post-Civil War writers best reflected the social concerns of the new urban age? Which writers reflected a nostalgic interest in the American or European past? Which tendency do you admire most, and why?

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

The vast majority of employed female workers in the late nineteenth century were

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 in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

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

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Exam 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Walter Rauschenbusch

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"?

Prominent liberal Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status, or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Sears/Montgomery Ward

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Christian Science

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Comstock Law

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Johns Hopkins University

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Stephen Crane

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

The intellectual development(s) that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -James Naismith

Which post-Civil War writers best reflected the social concerns of the new urban age? Which writers reflected a nostalgic interest in the American or European past? Which tendency do you admire most, and why?

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

The vast majority of employed female workers in the late nineteenth century were

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 in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

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

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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