Question 1

In 1900 American manufacturing workers' earnings were twice the amount of immigrants working in skilled jobs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Most African Americans were

Accepted Answer

A) landowners. 
B) businessmen. 
C) sharecroppers and tenant farmers. 
D) railroad contractors. 
E) none of these choices 
A) landowners. 
B) businessmen. 
C) sharecroppers and tenant farmers. 
D) railroad contractors. 
E) none of these choices

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

By 1900,the average work week in American industry was fifty hours.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Many immigrants between 1900 and 1914 returned to the land of their birth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

African Americans were treated worse than new immigrants.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of ____________________ was the term used by women...

Question 8

Older middle-class Americans had a problem with Coney Island.That problem had to do with which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) The pleasure working class Americans were affording themselves. 
B) The fact that they could not control their worker's every moves. 
C) The fact that young men and women were unchaperoned. 
D) The rampant prostitution. 
E) The fact that it was segregated. 
A) The pleasure working class Americans were affording themselves. 
B) The fact that they could not control their worker's every moves. 
C) The fact that young men and women were unchaperoned. 
D) The rampant prostitution. 
E) The fact that it was segregated.

Question 9

Examine the changes in amusements and in commercial entertainment at the turn of the century.

Accepted Answer

Changes in the location where people liv

Question 10

Many "new" immigrants rose to the prosperous ranks of skilled labor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Many local politicians made money through graft.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

American vaudeville

Accepted Answer

A) grew out of antebellum minstrelsy. 
B) would be best described as song shows. 
C) had largely died out by 1900. 
D) initially catered to the wealthy,leisure class. 
E) never appealed to the respectable middle class. 
A) grew out of antebellum minstrelsy. 
B) would be best described as song shows. 
C) had largely died out by 1900. 
D) initially catered to the wealthy,leisure class. 
E) never appealed to the respectable middle class.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A) Immigrant men and male children constituted 70 percent of the workforce in 15 leading industries. 
B) Of 750,000 Slovaks arriving in America before 1913,at least 600,000 went to work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania. 
C) First- and second-generation immigrants constituted more than 96 percent of the labor force that built and maintained the nation's railroads. 
D) all of these choices 
E) none of these choices 
A) Immigrant men and male children constituted 70 percent of the workforce in 15 leading industries. 
B) Of 750,000 Slovaks arriving in America before 1913,at least 600,000 went to work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania. 
C) First- and second-generation immigrants constituted more than 96 percent of the labor force that built and maintained the nation's railroads. 
D) all of these choices 
E) none of these choices

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Public officials known as "city bosses"

Exam 20: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

In 1900 American manufacturing workers' earnings were twice the amount of immigrants working in skilled jobs.

Most African Americans were

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

By 1900,the average work week in American industry was fifty hours.

Many immigrants between 1900 and 1914 returned to the land of their birth.

African Americans were treated worse than new immigrants.

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

Older middle-class Americans had a problem with Coney Island.That problem had to do with which of the following?

Examine the changes in amusements and in commercial entertainment at the turn of the century.

Many "new" immigrants rose to the prosperous ranks of skilled labor.

Many local politicians made money through graft.

American vaudeville

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

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

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Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

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A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

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War and Society, 1914-1920

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America During the Second World War

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

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