Exam 4: Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

Most Asian migrants came into the country through Ellis Island.

____________________ was the first female movie sex symbol.

In the 1870s,many cities were ____________________ cities where one did not need transportation.

It is estimated that the proportion of women having sex before marriage rose from 10 percent to ____________________ percent in the generation that was coming of age between 1910 and 1920.

African Americans migrated to ____________________ areas in the north and south.

In 1882,national legislation to limit immigration to the United States was directed at the ____________________ immigrants.

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

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

African Americans were treated worse than new immigrants.

____________________ was income politicians made outside of their salaries.

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

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

The quintessential force in late-nineteenth-century city government was

The black middle class tended to be smaller and more precarious than its counterpart in other ethnic communities.

In African American communities one would find which of the following?

This time period saw a great deal of government corruption and organized crime.

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

Immigrants who came to the United States tended to do so regardless of whether or not they had friends or relatives already in the United States.

In the early years of the movie industry the price of theater tickets was too high for the working classes of the cities to enjoy this new form of entertainment.

The living conditions for most of the working class can best be described as