Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Chautauqua movement

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Anti-Saloon League

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Question 3

In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except

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A) soaring divorce rates. 
B) the spreading practice of birth control. 
C) more children being born out of wedlock. 
D) increasingly frank discussion of sexual topics. 
E) more women working outside the home.

Question 4

In what ways did religion begin to address the issues facing urban American society, and in what ways was it increasingly confined to a private and personal sphere?

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Theodore Dreiser

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Question 6

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

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A) mass-production factories. 
B) the Sears catalog. 
C) advertising billboards. 
D) public transportation systems. 
E) large department stores.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Question 8

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

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A) Slums 
B) Dumbbell tenements 
C) Bedroom communities 
D) Flophouses 
E) The "Lung Block"

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Little Poland/Little Italy

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Question 10

After the Civil War, life expectancy at birth

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A) decreased. 
B) changed very little. 
C) was much higher in Europe than in the United States. 
D) measurably increased because of public health campaigns that promoted sound hygiene and health practices. 
E) rose for women more than men.

Question 11

All of these were factors that increasingly made cities more attractive than farms for young adults except

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A) electricity, indoor plumbing and telephones. 
B) the advent of skyscrapers and suspension bridges. 
C) urban nightlife. 
D) industrial jobs. 
E) the lower cost of living.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Hull House

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Question 13

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-The New Immigrants who came to America after 1880

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A) were mostly poor European urban workers. 
B) usually did not speak proper English, unlike their children who learned and spoke fluent English. 
C) were from southern and eastern Europe.n 
D) tended to settle in northeastern cities. 
E) were largely Roman Catholic or Jewish.

Question 14

In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for

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A) Jews. 
B) Irish-Americans. 
C) African Americans. 
D) the college-educated. 
E) native-born Americans.

Question 15

One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

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A) women's growing economic independence as a result of the widespread entry into the professional world. 
B) stresses of urban life. 
C) emerging feminist movement. 
D) passage of more liberal divorce laws. 
E) decline of religious organizations.

Question 16

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

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A) the corruption of city government. 
B) low industrial wages. 
C) the degradation of life in American cities. 
D) importing alien social and economic doctrines such as socialism and anarchism. 
E) the rising cost of American manual labor.

Question 17

By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage

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A) acknowledged that women were biologically weaker than men but claimed that they deserved the vote anyway. 
B) had abandoned the effort to persuade western states to grant women the right to vote. 
C) formed strong alliances with African Americans seeking voting rights. 
D) argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world. 
E) insisted on the inherent political and moral equality of men and women.

Question 18

The Morrill Act of 1862

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A) established black colleges like Spelman. 
B) established women's colleges like Smith. 
C) established the modern American research university. 
D) mandated racial integration in public schools. 
E) granted public lands to states to support higher education.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Thomas Eakins

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Exam 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Chautauqua movement

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Anti-Saloon League

In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except

In what ways did religion begin to address the issues facing urban American society, and in what ways was it increasingly confined to a private and personal sphere?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Theodore Dreiser

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Little Poland/Little Italy

After the Civil War, life expectancy at birth

All of these were factors that increasingly made cities more attractive than farms for young adults except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hull House

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The New Immigrants who came to America after 1880

In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for

One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for

By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage

The Morrill Act of 1862

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Women's Christian Temperance Union

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thomas Eakins

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The New Immigrants who came to America after 1880

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Many native-born Americans tended to blame New Immigrants for