Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Accepted Answer

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a prominent A

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Carrie Nation

Accepted Answer

Carrie Nation, born Carrie Amelia Moore

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A settlement house is a community-based

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Emma Lazarus

Accepted Answer

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 1

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Nativism is an ideological position that

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Anthony Comstock was a prominent figure

Question 8

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

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A)  had experience with democratic governments. 
B)  arrived primarily from Germany, Sweden, and Norway. 
C)  were culturally different from previous immigrants. 
D)  received a warm welcome from the Old Immigrants. 
E)  represented nonwhite racial groups. 
A)  had experience with democratic governments. 
B)  arrived primarily from Germany, Sweden, and Norway. 
C)  were culturally different from previous immigrants. 
D)  received a warm welcome from the Old Immigrants. 
E)  represented nonwhite racial groups.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Edward Bellamy

Accepted Answer

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an Americ

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Land-grant colleges, also known as land-

Question 11

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 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-William Randolph Hearst

Accepted Answer

William Randolph Hearst was an American

Question 13

Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

Accepted Answer

A)  demanded complete equality for African Americans. 
B)  established an industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. 
C)  supported the goals of Booker T. Washington. 
D)  maintained his American citizenship and residence in the United States throughout his life, despite his profound anger and disappointment with the absence of black economic and social equality in the country. 
E)  None of these choices are correct. 
A)  demanded complete equality for African Americans. 
B)  established an industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. 
C)  supported the goals of Booker T. Washington. 
D)  maintained his American citizenship and residence in the United States throughout his life, despite his profound anger and disappointment with the absence of black economic and social equality in the country. 
E)  None of these choices are correct.

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-single tax

Accepted Answer

The concept of a "single tax" is most fa

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Jane Addams

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an American

Question 16

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 such as socialism and anarchism. 
E)  ​the rising cost of American manual labor. 
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 such as socialism and anarchism. 
E)  ​the rising cost of American manual labor.

Question 17

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

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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.

Question 18

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 19

Why did sensational journalism and scandal-mongering expand, even as Americans' levels of education and cultural achievement increased?

Accepted Answer

Sensational journalism and scandal-monge

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Howard University

Accepted Answer

Howard University is a private, federall

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Carrie Nation

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Emma Lazarus

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

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

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

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Edward Bellamy

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

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Randolph Hearst

Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -single tax

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jane Addams

Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

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

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?

Why did sensational journalism and scandal-mongering expand, even as Americans' levels of education and cultural achievement increased?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Howard University

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: -Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Carrie Nation

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Emma Lazarus

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

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

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

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Edward Bellamy

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

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Randolph Hearst

Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -single tax

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jane Addams

Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

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

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?

Why did sensational journalism and scandal-mongering expand, even as Americans' levels of education and cultural achievement increased?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Howard University

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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