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Chapter 20
Ms. Anderson's class
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Histology
11th Grade
03/27/2013
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The quintessential force in late-nineteenth-century city government was
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the political machine.
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The skyscrapers celebrated which of the following?
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man
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The primary motivation for late-nineteenth-century immigration was
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economic hardship.
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For the most part, native-born Americans viewed the "new immigrants" as
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racially inferior and culturally impoverished.
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Most African Americans were
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sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
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Most European immigrants who arrived between 1880 and 1914 came from
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eastern and southern Europe.
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America's first illegal aliens were
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Chinese and Japanese.
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All of the following are true of Chicago except
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it had no architects to adequately address major urban problems.
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Some Japanese immigrants achieved success as
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small western farmers.
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The nation's first subways were constructed in
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Boston.
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The political boss of Boston was
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James Michael Curley.
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The audience for novelist Laura Jane Libbey was mostly
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working class.
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Which of the following is true about the 1893 Columbian Exhibition?
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It deliberately rejected displaying achievements by black Americans.
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By 1920, the majority of workers in American cities were
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immigrants.
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The most popular form of entertainment in turn-of-the-century urban America was
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the movies.
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American vaudeville
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X initially catered to the wealthy, leisure class.
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Older middle-class Americans had a problem with Coney Island. That problem had to do with which of the following?
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The fact that young men and women were unchaperoned.
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The "White City" refers to which of the following?
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Chicago
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The one major issue that all writers discussing nationality ignored was
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X religion.
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In African American communities one would find which of the following?
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all of these choices
newspapers.
doctor's offices.
grocery stores.
funeral homes.
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The living conditions for most of the working class can best be described as
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squalid.
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Museums in the Gild Age worked the hardest to attract the attention of the
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X widest possible audience.
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Which of the following is true about labor in the early twentieth century?
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X all of these choices.
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Margaret Sanger crusaded for
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birth control.
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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was
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X a conservative craft union that advocated collective bargaining agreements.
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One of the new elements to the dime novels were
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X fantasies.
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The idea of American's nationality being cosmopolitan was first discussed by which of the following?
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Randolph Bourne
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Most Japanese and Chinese immigrants came to America
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because of economic deprivation.
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Chinese and Japanese immigrants
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were ineligible for citizenship.
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A major problem with waterworks in the large cities was
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X all of these choices.
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In the early twentieth century, the American middle class
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X slowed assimilation of ethnic groups.
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All of the following are true of women in this time period except
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some women were championing for female leaders in Congress.
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As a result of the new emphasis on productivity in manufacturing,
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the United States had the world's highest rate of on-the-job injuries.
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