Matching
|
|
|
Match each item with the correct statement. a. | new
immigrants | k. | settlement
houses | b. | steerage | l. | Elisha Otis | c. | benevolent
societies | m. | Jane
Addams | d. | Scott Joplin | n. | compulsory education laws | e. | Chinese
Exclusion Act | o. | City Beautiful
movement | f. | Immigration Restriction League | p. | ragtime | g. | Denis
Kearney | q. | John
Dewey | h. | skyscrapers | r. | Walter Camp | i. | mass
transit | s. | James
Naismith | j. | nouveau riche | | | | |
|
|
|
1.
|
large, multistory buildings
|
|
|
2.
|
a
French term meaning “newly rich”
|
|
|
3.
|
a
second wave of immigrants to the United States that arrived between 1891 and 1910
|
|
|
4.
|
a
woman who was at the forefront of the settlement-house movement
|
|
|
5.
|
an
organization that sought to limit immigration by imposing a literacy test on all
immigrants
|
|
|
6.
|
the
leader of the Workingmen’s Party of California who strongly objected to Chinese immigration to
the United States
|
|
|
7.
|
religious and nonreligious aid organizations created to aid immigrants in cases of
sickness, unemployment, and death
|
|
|
8.
|
an
educational reformer who emphasized “learning by doing”
|
|
|
9.
|
the
poorest accommodations on a steamship
|
|
|
10.
|
community service centers that were established in poor neighborhoods to provide
educational opportunities, training, and cultural events for neighborhood residents
|
|
|
11.
|
a
movement that stressed the need to include parks and attractive boulevards in the design of
cities
|
|
|
12.
|
state
laws that required parents to send their children to school
|
|
|
13.
|
the
King of Ragtime
|
|
|
14.
|
developed the mechanized elevator to transport people between floors in multistoried
buildings
|
|
|
15.
|
public transportation, such as electric commuter trains, subways, and trolley
cars
|
Essay
|
|
|
16.
|
How
did the technological advances of the latter half of the 1800s revolutionize life for all
Americans?
|
Other
|
|
|
For
each of the following statements or questions, identify the letter of the best choice. Next, expand
on the subject by answering the second question.
|
|
|
17.
|
Nativists were
a. new immigrants who objected to the strict
immigration policies.
b. U.S. citizens who opposed
immigration.
c. Californians who opposed the immigration of eastern
Europeans.
d. U.S. citizens whose ancestors had come to the United States at
least three generations before.
How successful
were the nativists?
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
18.
|
City
planners created city parks
a. for the
middle and upper classes. | c. as athletic fields. | b. for all classes. | d. as amusement
parks. | | |
How did the development of these city parks help make up for some of
the other changes occurring to cities during this period?
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
19.
|
Most
middle-class women who worked outside the home
a. worked at
professional jobs, such as law and medicine.
b. enjoyed
surprising equality with men in the job market.
c. worked in
accounting and management.
d. worked as sales clerks, secretaries, and
stenographers.
How did life change for middle-class women who worked
at home?
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
20.
|
Ragtime, which emerged in the 1890s,
a. was created
by African American musicians.
b. was popular primarily with African American
audiences.
c. was performed in concert halls by symphony
orchestras.
d. was a further development of the waltzes and marches popular
earlier in the century.
How did ragtime
compare to the Victorian culture of the time?
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
Write
T if the statement is true or F if it is false. If a statement is false, explain
why.
|
|
|
21.
|
______ Ellis Island in New York Harbor and Angel Island in San
Francisco Bay were two important immigration stations in the late 1800s.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
22.
|
______ The Cakewalk, the Grizzly Bear, and the Turkey Trot were
ragtime dances that became immensely popular.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
23.
|
______ Landscape architect Walter Camp designed Central Park in New York City in
1857.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
24.
|
______ Living conditions for the poor in the cities were poor and
unhealthful.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
25.
|
______ During the late 1800s, jobs were plentiful and workers’ wages were
high.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
26.
|
______ President Grover Cleveland supported passage of a bill
by Congress that would have required all immigrants to take a literacy
test.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
27.
|
______ Basketball was described as “the national game of the United
States.”
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
28.
|
______ The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers
from immigrating to the United States and denied citizenship to those already
here.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
29.
|
______ Mass transit enabled cities to expand outward, and suburbs were
born.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
30.
|
______ The development of a new and inexpensive type of paper
spurred the rapid growth of newspaper circulation.
_________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
31.
|
______ Protestant ministers began the Social Gospel as a means
of combating social injustice and other problems facing the poor.
_________________________________________________________________
|
Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
|
|
|
32.
|
Edith
Wharton was a a. | novelist who
wrote The House of Mirth. | b. | musician who wrote “The Maple Leaf
Rag.” | c. | reporter for the New York
World. | d. | cartoonist who created “the Yellow
Kid.” | | |
|
|
|
33.
|
Between 1865 and 1900, the percentage of Americans living in cities a. | decreased by 50
percent. | c. | tripled. | b. | doubled. | d. | remained about the same. | | | | |
|
|
|
34.
|
The
greatest number of immigrants entered the United States in a. | 1870. | c. | 1880. | b. | 1900. | d. | 1860. | | | | |
|
|
|
35.
|
During the late 1800s, the middle class a. | deserted the
city. | b. | shrank in numbers while the upper and lower classes expanded
sharply. | c. | grew rapidly as a result of the growth of new
industries. | d. | gave large sums of money to philanthropic
organizations. | | |
|
|
|
36.
|
Between 1865 and 1910, the numbers of newspapers in the United States a. | tripled. | c. | increased
slowly. | b. | increased by more than five
times. | d. | doubled. | | | | |
|
|
|
37.
|
About
70 percent of the new immigrants came from a. | northern or western Europe. | c. | Africa. | b. | Asia. | d. | southern or
eastern Europe. | | | | |
|
|
|
38.
|
The
first professional baseball team, which began playing ball in 1869, was the a. | Brooklyn
Dodgers. | c. | St. Louis
Cardinals. | b. | Cincinnati Red Stockings. | d. | Boston Red Sox. | | | | |
|
|
|
39.
|
During the last half of the 1800s, educational reform a. | was limited by
small increases in funding for education. | b. | included instruction in behavior, civic loyalty, and American
cultural values. | c. | reached only the children of the middle and upper
classes. | d. | made large strides toward racially integrating all public
schools. | | |
|
|
|
40.
|
Many
new immigrants came to the United States a. | to invest in the new booming economy. | b. | to escape
poverty and religious and political persecution. | c. | because they
believed social programs would provide them with needed medical care and educational
opportunities. | d. | to escape prosecution for crimes they
committed. | | |
|
|
|
41.
|
The
immigration station at Ellis Island a. | received immigrants who were mainly from
Asia. | b. | automatically accepted almost everyone who applied for
admission to the United States. | c. | turned away the majority of people hoping to enter the United
States. | d. | gave all newcomers a physical exam and turned away those with
serious illnesses. | | |
|
|
|
42.
|
Many
Americans attended the theater and enjoyed melodramatic performances in which a. | the villains
were poor immigrants and the heroes were generous nouveau riche. | b. | the villains
were nativists and the heroes were Americanized immigrants. | c. | the villains
were wealthy aristocrats and the heroes were working-class people. | d. | the villains
were immigrants and the heroes were nativists. | | |
|
|
|
43.
|
The
first electric trolley, or streetcar, began service in a. | Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. | c. | Cleveland,
Ohio. | b. | Richmond, Virginia. | d. | St. Paul, Minnesota. | | | | |
|
|
|
44.
|
James
Naismith invented the game of a. | football. | c. | croquet. | b. | baseball. | d. | basketball. | | | | |
|
|
|
45.
|
Mass
transit a. | resulted in a
rapid loss of population in the core of cities. | b. | made it
practical to build skyscrapers. | c. | had little effect on where workers lived because few could
afford to regularly travel by mass transit. | d. | allowed urban
areas to expand far from the central business district. | | |
|
|
|
46.
|
During the late 1800s, the working poor a. | benefited from a
building boom that resulted in an excess of housing and lower costs for
rent. | b. | lived in crowded tenements close to the factories, ports, and
stockyards where they worked. | c. | received increasingly good wages. | d. | lived
principally in the suburbs where rent was lower. | | |
|