Exam 18: The Age of the City

In the late nineteenth century,the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

In the late nineteenth century,leisure activities tended to be divided by

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,the growth of newspapers

The most powerful newspaper chain in the country was owned by ________.

In 1882,the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were

The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897.

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

The Equitable Building in New York City,completed in 1870,was the first in the United States to

Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late-nineteenth-century reformers,little was done to improve the children's situations.

The ________ school of artists was among the first in America to appreciate expressionism and abstraction.

Immigrant Americans were more likely to commit crimes than were native-born Americans.

Among the new immigrant arrivals to late nineteenth-century America,no single national group could be said to have dominated the scene.

In the nineteenth century,vaudeville theater

Which American thinker is LEAST associated with study using scientific methods?

Efforts to restrict the numbers of immigrants coming into the United States had met with little success by the end of the nineteenth century.

Into the power vacuum in America's cities swept the ________,one of America's most distinctive political institutions.

When the Anti-Saloon League and other temperance organizations attacked the saloon,one of the reasons they cited was that eliminating saloons would weaken political machines.

Reform organizations of the late nineteenth century proved to be more permanent than the urban political machines.

Theodore Dreiser's 1893 novel,Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,dealt with

By the 1890s,the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from