Question 1

Describe the roles that new immigrants played in the processes of urbanization and industrialization in the United States after 1880. Why were so many old-stock Americans apprehensive about the influx of new immigrants?

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Industrial...

Question 2

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-Women hired by businesses in the decades after the Civil War to keep records and conduct correspondence often using equipment such as typewriters. Secretarial work constituted one of the very few areas where middle-class women could use their literacy for wages.

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A)  American Federation of Labor (AFL) 
B)  bossism
C)  cult of domesticity
D)  Ellis Island
E)  family economyF) global migrationG) Great Railroad StrikeH) Haymarket bombingI) Knights of LaborJ) sweatshopK) "typewriters"L) World's Columbian ExpositionM) C) and E)
N) B) and D)

Question 3

What late-nineteenth-century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?

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A)   A developing labor shortage
B)   The rapid decline of immigration to the United States
C)   The ascendancy of urban America
D)   America's frontier spiritE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 4

By 1900, the population in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia had each grown to exceed

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A)   100,000.
B)   500,000.
C)   1 million.
D)   2 million.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 5

Which of the following was an outcome of the Haymarket affair?

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A)   The eight-hour workday became law across the nation.
B)   Americans became sympathetic toward anarchists and labor unions.
C)   Skilled workers turned toward the American Federation of Labor.
D)   Business owners resolved to improve their relationship with labor.E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 6

What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

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A)   A new consumer culture
B)   A formal dress code for working women
C)   Changes in minimum-wage laws
D)   Stringent new notions of saving moneyE) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

What new developments began to undermine the cult of domesticity in the late nineteenth century?

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Question 8

How did the percentage of children under age fifteen working in the paid labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I?

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A)   It gradually decreased until it fell below 5 percent of the population.
B)   It dropped to virtually nothing owing to strict enforcement of child labor laws.
C)   It increased decade by decade.
D)   It remained much the same as it had been in 1870.E) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 9

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-May 4, 1886, incident in which both workers and policemen were killed or wounded after a labor demonstration in Chicago turned violent. The incident created a backlash against labor activism.

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A)  American Federation of Labor (AFL) 
B)  bossism
C)  cult of domesticity
D)  Ellis Island
E)  family economyF) global migrationG) Great Railroad StrikeH) Haymarket bombingI) Knights of LaborJ) sweatshopK) "typewriters"L) World's Columbian ExpositionM) F) and L)
N) B) and L)

Question 10

How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?

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A)   As wives, mothers, or daughters
B)   As single, unskilled wage laborers
C)   As single, skilled workers
D)   As part of educated, well-off familiesE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

The direction of corporate goals and policies in the late nineteenth century was increasingly shaped by

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A)   market forces.
B)   workers' demands.
C)   stockholders and financiers.
D)   managers and executives.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 12

During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for

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A)   overtime pay, paid sick days, and paid vacations.
B)   social revolution and workers' ownership of the means of production.
C)   public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, and equal pay for women.
D)   shorter hours for children and women who worked outside of their homes.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 13

What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s?

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A)   The power of the church to control mass entertainment
B)   The Statue of Liberty's attraction for tourists
C)   The importance of nature as a retreat from urban life
D)   The rise of mass entertainment in AmericaE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 14

What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890) ?

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A)   He produced the first internationally recognized American novel.
B)   He empowered the occupants of New York City's Lower East Side tenements.
C)   He forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor.
D)   He convinced established immigrant groups that new immigrants deserved respect.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century

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A)   through the use of violence and intimidation.
B)   by replacing people with machines.
C)   by forbidding shop-floor workers from talking during the workday.
D)   through hiring factory foremen to supervise every aspect of production.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 16

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-The first mass organization of America's working class. Founded in 1869, it attempted to bridge the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, ideology, race, and occupation to build a "universal brotherhood" of all workers.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Federation of Labor (AFL) 
B)  bossism
C)  cult of domesticity
D)  Ellis Island
E)  family economyF) global migrationG) Great Railroad StrikeH) Haymarket bombingI) Knights of LaborJ) sweatshopK) "typewriters"L) World's Columbian ExpositionM) K) and L)
N) D) and E)

Question 17

In the late nineteenth century, some established immigrant groups viewed more recent immigrants as

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A)   not being a part of the white race.
B)   being more dependent on government aid.
C)   having an easy time assimilating to life in the United States.
D)   being too critical of the United States.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Exam 19: The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900

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How did the percentage of children under age fifteen working in the paid labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I?

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What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s?

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How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?

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What late-nineteenth-century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?

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Describe the roles that new immigrants played in the processes of urbanization and industrialization in the United States after 1880. Why were so many old-stock Americans apprehensive about the influx of new immigrants?

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Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century

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What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890) ?

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By 1900, the population in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia had each grown to exceed

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The direction of corporate goals and policies in the late nineteenth century was increasingly shaped by

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During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for

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What new developments began to undermine the cult of domesticity in the late nineteenth century?

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What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

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