Exam 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920

Most African Americans were

There were big changes both above and below ground in the growing cities.

​The Triangle Shirtwaist fire was characterized by

African American real estate agents in many cities achieved significant wealth and power.

The working class was overwhelmingly ethnic in all sections of the country except the ____________________.

Urban elites were drawn to architecture that had ____________________ influences.

____________________ was income politicians made outside of their salaries.

Describe the developing urban African-American community at the turn of the century.

Israel Zangwill's most well known play was ____________________.

Europeans accounted for ____________________ of the total number of immigrants to the U.S. in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Most working families required two to three wage-earners in order to make ends meet.

Within the first decade of the 20th century, the majority of workers in American cities were

Conservatives were concerned about the antagonism that existed between feminists and labor activists.

Most Asian migrants came into the country through Ellis Island.

Skyscrapers in the late nineteenth century were reaching to the sky but smaller and shorter than European cathedrals.

____________________ was the term used by women who desired full equality with men.

Describe the rise of corrupt party machines and organized crime in urban America.

Between 1880 and 1920 the number of immigrants coming to the United States declined significantly.

Which of the following is true about labor in the early twentieth century?

By the early twentieth century, northern industrialists preferred to hire southern blacks over the "new immigrants."