Question 1

The cartoon above is a commentary on late nineteenth-century

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municipal corruption

Question 2

which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century

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immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce

Question 3

which of the following best represents organized labor's views toward new immigrants

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American workers deserved protection from these foreign laborers

Question 4

after 1875, most natural scientists did which of the following

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came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it

Question 5

which of the following are NOT characteristics of immigrants in the late nineteenth century

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they were mainly female

Question 6

the majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

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Midwest and Northeast

Question 7

What does this image suggest about life in the tenement (women working)

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life in the tenement was communal

Question 8

during the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform

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educated middle-class women

Question 9

which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph

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the transformation of the United States into an industrial society

Question 10

Who primarily ran settlement houses

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Middle-class, native-born women

Question 11

the quote above is an example of which of the following schools of thought

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Social Darwinism

Question 12

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century did which of the following

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they provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support

Question 13

a prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement

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Jane Addams

Question 14

pragmatism

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A distinctive American philosophy that emerged in the late nineteenth century around the theory that the true value of an idea lay in its ability to solve problems

Question 15

realism

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a mid-nineteenth century movement in European and American literature and the arts that sought to depict contemporary life and society as it was, in all its unvarnished detail. Adherents eschewed the idealism and nostalgia of the earlier romantic sensibility

Question 16

immigrants to the united states in the last quarter of the nineteenth century came primarily from

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European farms and villages

Question 17

what is the likely purpose of the piecework (women working)

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to earn a second income

Question 18

settlement house work as described by Muncy had the most in common with women's activism during which of the following earlier periods

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the Second Great Awakening in the first half of the 1800s

Question 19

All of the following are true of New Immigrants except

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they primarily immigrated from western Europe

Question 20

what conclusion may be drawn from the image (women sewing)

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assimilation was not yet complete for these families

Question 21

which of the following was a difference between the immigration from 1865 to 1895 depicted in the graph and immigration from 1840s and 1850s

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more immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s arrived with cultural practices similar to those of Americans than did the immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1895

Question 22

what did the normal schools that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth century specialize in

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educating teachers

Question 23

Tuskegee Institute

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all choices are correct

Question 24

which two religious groups gained greatly from the mass immigration of the late nineteenth century

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Catholics and Jews

Question 25

Jane Addams began the settlement house movement with her Hull House in Chicago, which provided social services primarily to

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immigrants

Question 26

during the late nineteenth century, politicians such as the one depicted in the image most likely would have opposed which of the following (Boss Tweed)

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calls for reforms to local and state governments

Question 27

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most likely described as

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Social Darwinists

Question 28

which author took a magnifying glass to the inner turmoil and moral shortcomings of post-Civil War high society

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Edith Wharton

Question 29

which of the following best accounts for the curve on the graph above depicting immigration to the United States from Asia, Africa, and the Americas between 1882 and 1909

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restrictive congressional legislation

Question 30

naturalism

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An offshoot of mainstream realism, this late-nineteenth-century literary movement purported to apply detached scientific objectivity to the study of human characters shaped by degenerate heredity and extreme or sordid social environments

Question 31

which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt

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settlement house workers

Question 32

which of the following was true of settlement house workers in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries

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they included large numbers of middle-class, college-educated women

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naturalism

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a literary style exploring social dislocation and intellectual upheaval

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natural selection

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a theory explaining how organisms evolved

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Liberal Protestantism

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reconciliation of religious ideas with modern culture

Question 36

carrie chapman catt

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all choices are correct

Question 37

settlement house workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

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organizing women workers into labor unions

Question 38

Anthony Comstock was best known for his crusade against which of the following

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sexual explicitness and obscenity

Question 39

regionalism

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A recurring artistic movement that, in the context of the late nineteenth century, aspired to capture the peculiarities, or local color, of America's various regions in the face of modernization and national standardization

Question 40

Booker T. Washington

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As head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Washington advocated for vocational education for African-Americans so that they could gain economic security

Question 41

the image was most directly in response to (Boss Tweed)

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the power gained by urban political machines

Question 42

working women in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help

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immigrants adapt to American customs and language

Question 43

who was the journalist-reformer who advocated a single tax

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Henry George

Question 44

W. E. B. Du Bois

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all choices are corrext

Question 45

which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true

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the only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi

Question 46

which of the following aimed to promote order, harmony, and virtue while beautifying the nations new urban soaces

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the City Beautiful movement

Question 47

which of the following was both a response to immigration in the 1850s and the immigration depicted in the graph

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nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants

Question 48

which american author is known for carrying literary realism to new heiguts

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Mark Twain

Question 49

John Dewey

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A leader of the pragmatist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dewey applied the philosophy to education and social reform, advocating learning by doing as well as the application of knowledge to solving real life problems. He became an outspoken promoter of social and political reforms that broadened American democracy

Question 50

the late nineteenth century ushered in an era of social crusades and reform, including the effort to prohibit alcohol and promote temperance. all of the following phrases describe the goal of this movement EXCEPT

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target unwanted immigrant groups

Question 51

which of the following was a long-term development that contributed to the change in Chinese immigration depicted in the graph between 1875 and 1885

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Chinese laborers competed with White laborers for jobs and mineral wealth during the 1850s and 1860s

Question 52

all of the following are true of daily newspapers in the late nineteenth century except

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the day of slashing journalistic giants like Horace Greeley was returning

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