- Who were the "new immigrants" who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920?
Your answer:
Scandinavians and Germans
Irish
English, Scottish, and Welsh
Chinese and Koreans
southern and eastern Europeans
- People immigrated to the United States because of
Your answer:
overpopulation in their homeland.
crop failure and famine in their homeland.
industrial depression in their homeland.
the promise of good wages and a broad range of jobs
all of these
- Which statement best represents urban residential patterns among ethnic groups?
Your answer:
Immigrants preferred to mix in with the general population in order to assimilate more quickly into American culture
Immigrants preferred to live near others not merely of their own nationality, but from their own village or region in the old country.
Religion was the primary factor in ethnic residential patterns because immigrants congregated around their churches.
Common language was the primary factor in ethnic residential patterns, regardless of national origin.
Immigrants tried to blot out their memories of the Old Country by living among different kinds of people.
- "Machine politics" was
Your answer:
urban politics influenced by the new industrial elite who were known as bosses.
urban politics controlled by the boss of an unofficial political organization designed to keep a particular party or faction in office.
a social theory in which all interest groups in society meshed together like the parts of a machine.
the derisive term given to voting machines when urban reformers first introduced them.
urban politics influenced by the ideas of reformers.
- The settlement-house movement distinguished itself from other urban social-welfare organizations by
Your answer:
helping poor immigrants settle on western homesteads to relieve urban overcrowding.
helping the urban poor purchase their own homes because of the belief that owning private property leads to the adoption of middle-class values.
insisting that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor.
not being concerned about the urban poor's propensity for drinking and gambling.
trying to keep immigrants “settled” indoors until they could behave like Americans.
- Which of the following is a valid conclusion to draw about the ways in which immigrants adjusted to urban life in their new society?
Your answer:
Many immigrants shed their native culture only with reluctance.
Immigrants had little desire to become Americanized.
Immigrants came to the United States to try to become like Americans.
Immigrants were ashamed of their native culture
The dominant American culture made assimilation impossible.
- The view of human nature associated with Victorianism was founded on which of the following assumptions?
Your answer:
Humans were basically good and could improve themselves through strenuous effort.
Humans were naturally inclined to evil and therefore had to be restrained from dragging society down into the depths of self-indulgence.
Spontaneity and self-expression were matters of individual choice and should not be restricted by government or society.
Women were an impediment to moral progress.
Inexorable natural laws controlled behavior and the social order.
- During the 1880s and 1890s, which new obligation was added to the traditional middle-class woman's role as director of the household?
Your answer:
to cultivate her special maternal gifts, especially her sensitivity toward children and her aptitude for religion
to seek outlets for her creative energies outside the home
to nurture her family's cultural improvement by fostering an artistic environment of ornamentation, knickknacks, and well-arranged furniture
to foster a home environment which would encourage her husband to share both his breadwinning duties and her homemaking duties
to be the moral beacon shining light across a sea of male decadence
- What purpose did college football have, according to its defenders in the late nineteenth century?
Your answer:
It epitomized American democratic ideals, because all Americans played or watched the game.
It was a character-building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society.
It was a safe sport that the nation's future business and professional leaders could undertake without fear of injury
It would teach students the military discipline and skills necessary as the U.S. became a world power.
all of these
- What was the new approach to higher education that institutions such as Cornell, the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard began to provide in the late nineteenth century?
Your answer:
to train the sons of the elite in classical languages, theology, logic, and mathematics
to concentrate on only a few subjects in which the university could excel
to reward faculty members for devoting their full energies to excellence in teaching rather than useless research
to shorten the curriculum and accept larger incoming classes
to create an environment where any person could find instruction in any study
- Why did leisure-time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late nineteenth century?
Your answer:
Factory labor was growing more routine and impersonal, and social interactions at the workplace were increasingly inhibited.
Working-class Americans viewed leisure activity as a method of rising to middle-class status.
American employers were increasingly emphasizing leisure and relaxation as a method of keeping their work force happy and healthy.
Leisure-time activities brought Americans of all ethnicities together and therefore contributed to a process of
all of these
- Why did ragtime quickly become a national craze during the 1890s, especially among the working class?
Your answer:
The music displayed a fresh originality.
It was considered to have "wild" and complex rhythms.
It originated in brothels and was associated with blacks.
It was played strictly for entertainment.
all of these
- Which of the following stories might be described as an example of naturalism?
Your answer:
a story about New England village life that emphasized the distinctive dialect of the people and the colorful details of local life
a novel in which a young farm boy goes to the big city to make his fortune, finds that Christianity is his true love, and returns home to live a quiet, comfortable, and happy life with his childhood sweetheart
a bleak and fatalistic story about an innocent girl's exploitation and ultimate suicide in the harsh environment of an urban slum
a sensationalist exposé of the political corruption and misdeeds of a giant holding company
none of these
- The work of which of the following individuals was not an example of "modernism" in architecture or painting during the late nineteenth century?
Your answer:
architect Frank Lloyd Wright
painter Thomas Eakins
architect Richard Morris Hunt
painter Winslow Homer
C and D
- Who coined the term "conspicuous consumption" to describe the excessive materialism and flaunting of wealth of America's captains of industry?
Your answer:
Mark Twain
Annie MacLean
Thorstein Veblen
W. E. B. Du Bois
E. L. Godkin