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Jacob Riis's 1890 book How the Other Half Lives shocked middleclass Americans with its sensational description of
lower-class slums
As industrial society became increasingly dependent on specialized skills and scientific knowledge, changes in education included
the opening of more educational opportunities for women
In the late 1800s, most of the foreign immigrants to the cities
established close-knit ethnic communities
Transportation problems in American cities near the turn of the nineteenth century included
the inability to construct paved roads to meet a growing population
A distinctive women's community emerged in the United States because graduates of female colleges
all the answers below
Authors such as Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser revealed in their works
the mistreatment of the poor in the urban industrial society
All of the following are factors that contributed to the development of cities except
the attempt to build larger, more humane housing for the poor workers
The population increase in the cities also caused a housing shortage, which was dealt with by
All the answers below
Early efforts at urban sewage disposal frequently
All the answers below
The ethnic working class showed great enthusiasm in its celebration of
The Fourth of July
The need for entertainment in the new cities resulted in
the creation of distinct "highbrow" and "lowbrow" cultures
Darwinism produced a growing concern for scientific inquiry that affected all of the following fields except
Music
During the late 1800s, the need for specialized skills and scientific knowledge was answered by all of the following educational developments except
a significant upsurge in schools for blacks
The rise of mass-consumption economy at the end of the 1800s led to
All the answers below
The new consumer market allowed buyers to
all the answers below
The consumer economy was a major factor in the formation of one of the first political organizations in which women played a significant role, which was the
National Consumers League
Organized football was first played by
College students
The city machine and "boss rule" were created and continued to thrive because
immigrants needed services and employment
During the late 1800s, the effort to educate or "civilize" the Indians failed because
all the answers below
In dealing with the huge numbers of immigrants, most cities solved their housing problems by moving the new arrivals into
Tenement slums
During the early 1900s, the term "yellow journalism" referred to
a sensational, often lurid style of reporting
"Dime novels" included all of the following genres except
Classical Greek poetry
During the late 1800s, the most significant effect of the change in incomes upon society was that
the middle class grew larger and more prosperous
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the only form of popular entertainment open to large numbers of blacks was
vaudeville
John Dewey's educational theories emphasized that schools should
use a flexible, democratic approach that allows students to deal with the realities of society
During the late 1800s, immigrants to the United States tended to become
unskilled workers
Most of the Americans who fought the passage of laws to restrict immigration did so because they
wanted a cheap and plentiful source of labor for American industry
The beginnings of popular culture in the late 1800s gave rise to all of the following forms of entertainment except
radio
Despite the problems of rapid urban growth, the city of the late 1800s continued to grow because
the cities were becoming the economic hub of the country
New department stores in the late nineteenth century
all the below
The first truly universal mass-entertainment medium, which reached all areas of the country and all levels of the population, was the
Motion picture
During the 1880s, when Southern blacks immigrated to the cities,
black women found work more often than did black men
The fear of foreign immigrants in the late 1800s led to all of the following developments except
the adoption of literacy tests to screen immigrants
Concerning the population of the United States, the 1920 census revealed that
for the first time, the majority of Americans lived in urban areas
The new system of mass consumption had the most dramatic impact on
middle class women
In the early 1900s, American artists began to
portray realistic scenes of ordinary life
During the late 1800s, building in urban areas increased significantly for all of the following reasons except
the decreasing rate of taxes
The theory of evolution developed in the late 1800s had all of the following results except
it was almost immediately accepted by educators, theologians, and scientists
The groups that migrated to the cities after the Civil War included large numbers of all of the following groups except
southern whites
Foreigners were encouraged to assimilate into American culture by all of the following factors except
laws required churches to be independent of foreign influence
After the Civil War, a leader at a women's college remarked on improving women's educational and career opportunities by saying
"Our failures marry"
In the late 1800s, the available welfare services were generally provided to the urban poor by
The bosses of city machines
The new industrial and consumer economy of the city produced a number of changes in the lives of women, such as
all the answers below
Major hazards of the new cities of the late 1800s included all of the following problems except
Drugs
During the Teddy Roosevelt administration, the White House conference on organized sports culminated in the formation of what was to become the
National College Athletic Association
The immigrants of the late 1800s who generally advanced most rapidly were
Germans and Jews
In the late 1800s, the most popular of the new spectator sports was
baseball
Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck stores were the first to
provide mail-order catalogues in rural areas
The urban political machine had all of the following goals except
keeping the Irish Catholics from gaining control of city government
New merchandising techniques at the turn of the nineteenth century included
the making and marketing of ready-made clothes
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