Exam 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900

The American Protective Association:

In major cities, politics was often a form of public entertainment.

Mary Elizabeth Lease:

Describe the explosive growth of urbanization in the late nineteenth century. What factors led to this growth, and where did the largest growth take place?

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Mark Hanna

During the presidential election of 1892, the Populist candidate James B. Weaver:

Commodity prices during the Gilded Age declined in large part because of:

Popular Science Monthly, founded in 1872, became the chief magazine for promoting:

One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because:

"Nativists" believed:

During the campaign for the presidential election of 1884, many prominent Republican leaders and supporters left the party because:

The public health officials and municipal engineers that tried to clean up the city and its public health dangers were called:

All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities EXCEPT:

How did immigration to America change in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and what was the response to that change?

Vaudeville shows were popular because:

By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit EXCEPT:

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act:

Why was the development of cast-iron and steel-frame construction techniques significant to the growth of cities?

The reason that Chester A. Arthur did not win a second term in 1884 is that:

Ellis Island was built by New York City primarily to handle an influx of immigrants.