Question 1

Which of the following describes the amenities of American city life in the 1890s?

Accepted Answer

A)   They came at great cost to immigrants and the poor.
B)   They enriched political bosses more than urban communities.
C)   They were equally available to people of all races and social classes.
D)   They were not easily accessible to the poor residents of cities.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 2

What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

Accepted Answer

A)   A revolutionary plot by the radical Workingman's party
B)   The result of a coalition of labor unions
C)   A spontaneous and unorganized event
D)   A plan by socialists to overthrow the governmentE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 3

Why did Congress approve a literacy test for immigrants in 1896?

Accepted Answer

A)   To help schools develop curriculums for immigrant students
B)   To determine new immigrants' needs for social services
C)   As a means of limiting the influx of uneducated people into the country
D)   As part of a program to help new immigrants learn EnglishE) C) and D)
F) A) and C) C

Question 4

Where did married black women typically work to supplement their family income in the late nineteenth century United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   Outside the home as domestics
B)   Outside the home as typists
C)   At home as pieceworkers
D)   At home by taking in boardersE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

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) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 6

Working as a skilled craftsman in America in the late nineteenth century

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A)   meant guaranteed wages and year-round work.
B)   did not ensure financial security.
C)   was not much different from being a common laborer.
D)   required a secondary education.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 8

Which statement describes the immigrant experience in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Irish and Swedish immigrants were prohibited from obtaining secondary school educations.
B)   Jews were involuntarily confined to ghettos.
C)   Polish and German workers were excluded from the burgeoning labor union movement.
D)   Asian immigrants on the West Coast were made economic scapegoats.E) None of the above
F) A) and B) D

Question 9

How did live-in servants change households in the North by 1870?

Accepted Answer

A)   They enabled middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home.
B)   They made domestic service an honorable occupation for native-born American women to pursue.
C)   They had become a fixture of almost three-quarters of all urban households.
D)   They freed working women from the obligation of keeping house after working outside the home all day.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 11

Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

Accepted Answer

A)   They lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land.
B)   The majority had left overcrowded conditions in their homeland to settle in America's farmlands.
C)   They had come to America to escape harsh economic conditions in Germany and Ireland.
D)   They lived in temporary housing in the United States and soon returned to their homes.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 12

Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?

Accepted Answer

A)   The annexation of the rural areas surrounding America's major cities
B)   The migration of people from the rural areas of Europe and the United States
C)   The dramatic increase in the American birthrate
D)   The combination of a rising birthrate and urban annexationE) A) and B)
F) A) and C) B

Question 13

Which of the following developments changed the U.S.garment industry in the 1850s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Independent tailors were replaced by sweatshop workers.
B)   The supply of cheap labor dried up.
C)   Women became the dominant force in its labor unions.
D)   Foreign countries began to manufacture most of the world's clothing.E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 14

By the turn of the twentieth century,most big-city governments were run

Accepted Answer

A)   exclusively by city bosses and their cronies.
B)   by a powerful mayor who controlled the city council.
C)   by compromise and the accommodation of various powerful political forces.
D)   by boards and commissions of experts who were appointed by the mayor.E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Which statement describes the Haymarket affair of 1886?

Accepted Answer

A)   It began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals.
B)   It took place in Boston on the Fourth of July.
C)   It involved railroad workers who wanted higher wages.
D)   It made the Knights of Labor more powerful than ever.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 17

Most native-born white women who worked at the end of the nineteenth century held

Accepted Answer

A)   factory production jobs.
B)   jobs doing piecework in their homes.
C)   clerical jobs in offices.
D)   clerk jobs in department stores.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

Working-class courtship rituals in urban,industrial America in the late nineteenth century

Accepted Answer

A)   remained remarkably similar to those of preindustrial America.
B)   changed in that women met prospective husbands only through their families.
C)   consisted of informal meetings at dance halls and other commercial settings.
D)   favored working-class women who no longer had to rely on men to pay for their entertainment.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 19

What development led to the emergence of the modern skyscraper in the 1890s?

Accepted Answer

A)   The invention of the elevator
B)   The advent of structural steel
C)   The decline of corporate power
D)   The advent of cast ironE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Exam 4: The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900

Which of the following describes the amenities of American city life in the 1890s?

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What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Why did Congress approve a literacy test for immigrants in 1896?

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Where did married black women typically work to supplement their family income in the late nineteenth century United States?

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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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Working as a skilled craftsman in America in the late nineteenth century

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

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Which statement describes the immigrant experience in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

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How did live-in servants change households in the North by 1870?

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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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Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

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Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?

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Which of the following developments changed the U.S.garment industry in the 1850s?

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By the turn of the twentieth century,most big-city governments were run

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

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Which statement describes the Haymarket affair of 1886?

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Most native-born white women who worked at the end of the nineteenth century held

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Working-class courtship rituals in urban,industrial America in the late nineteenth century

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What development led to the emergence of the modern skyscraper in the 1890s?

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

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