Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Carrie Nation

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Sears/Montgomery Ward

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-new morality

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Question 4

Some historians have called pragmatism "America's only distinctive contribution to philosophy." In what way might it be true to say that pragmatism reflected unique qualities of American society and culture? How would pragmatists respond to the charge that theirs was an anti-intellectual philosophy?

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Henry George

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Question 6

The intellectual development(s) that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

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A) growing feminist assault on theories of male superiority. 
B) growing awareness of non-Christian religions. 
C) rise of theories of white racial superiority. 
D) rise of Socialism and anarchism. 
E) biology of Charles Darwin.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Mark Twain

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Question 8

American cities increasingly abandoned wooden construction for brick and steel in their downtown districts after

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A) the great Chicago fire of 1871. 
B) the development of the electric elevator and the skyscraper. 
C) brickmaking became cheaper and iron was superseded by more durable steel for construction purposes. 
D) the cost of brick and steel dropped markedly in the 1870s. 
E) wooden tenements collapsed in the New York inner city in the 1880s.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Walter Rauschenbusch

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Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Jane Addams

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Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Edward Bellamy

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Question 12

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

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A) helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 
B) believed developing the economic and educational resources of the black community was secondary to achieving political equality. 
C) discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut. 
D) promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation directly. 
E) shared a similar political philosophy with W.E.B.Du Bois.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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Question 14

Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status, or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?

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Question 15

By the late nineteenth century, most of the Old Immigrant groups from northern and Western Europe

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A) actively promoted the idea of a multicultural America. 
B) were still regarded with suspicion and hostility by the majority of native Americans. 
C) had largely abandoned their ethnically based churches, clubs, and neighborhoods. 
D) were largely accepted as American, even though they often lived in separate ethnic neighborhoods. 
E) still maintained a primary loyalty to their country of origin, especially Ireland or Germany.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Dwight Lyman Moody

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Question 17

The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by

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A) turning most scientists against religion. 
B) creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomodationists who supported it. 
C) raising awareness of the close spiritual kinship between animals and human beings. 
D) causing a revival of the doctrine of original sin. 
E) sparking the rise of new denominations based on modern science.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-dime novels

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Question 19

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-Leading pastimes of late-nineteenth-century Americans included

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A) bicycling. 
B) watching football. 
C) watching baseball. 
D) the circus. 
E) vaudeville.

Question 20

What was the impact of industrialization and urbanization on late-nineteenth-century American churches, schools, and family life? Cite at least two changes wrought on each of these institutions during this period.

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Carrie Nation

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Sears/Montgomery Ward

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -new morality

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Henry George

The intellectual development(s) that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Mark Twain

American cities increasingly abandoned wooden construction for brick and steel in their downtown districts after

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Walter Rauschenbusch

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jane Addams

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Edward Bellamy

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Was the new morality and rising frankness about matters of sexuality and marriage a reflection of women's rising status, or part of an attempt to keep women in a subordinate place?

By the late nineteenth century, most of the Old Immigrant groups from northern and Western Europe

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dwight Lyman Moody

The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -dime novels

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Leading pastimes of late-nineteenth-century Americans included

What was the impact of industrialization and urbanization on late-nineteenth-century American churches, schools, and family life? Cite at least two changes wrought on each of these institutions during this period.

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Leading pastimes of late-nineteenth-century Americans included