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| By 1900, all of the following technologies helped transform mass transit: subways, electric trolleys, cable cars, and elevated trains EXCEPT |
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| Tenement houses in New York City: |
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| Had higher mortality rates than the general population. |
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| Often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers. |
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| With the move of American cities toward regular trash-collection services, by 1900 what percentage of cities provided this service? |
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| Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever are all: |
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| After 1890, most immigrants were: |
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| Which of the following is NOT true concerning a bill to exclude immigrants incapable of reading? |
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| The exclusion of Chinese immigrants: |
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| Originally called for a ten year exclusion. |
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| Received more than a million immigrants in its busiest year. |
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| Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| Serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet woman. |
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| Variety shows for men, women, and children across classes. |
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| Frederick Law Olmstead is most famous for designing: |
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| Great urban parks in America. |
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| What were especially popular with women who chafed at the restricting conventions of the Victorian era? |
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| Dr. James Naismith invented: |
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| The first professional baseball team was the: |
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| Cincinnati Red Stockings. |
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| The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflected the desire: |
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| To stop the proliferation of religious (namely, Catholic and Jewish) schools. |
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| Women's access to higher education: |
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| Came slowest in the South and at the oldest colleges in the East. |
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| Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" |
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| A strict social Darwinist would object to all of the following: The graduated income tax, sanitation and housing regulations, regulation of medical quacks, the idea that the law of God and the law of nature might be the same thing EXCEPT |
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| A governmental policy of hands-off in regard to business. |
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| The main idea of reform Darwinism was that: |
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| Cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress. |
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| Lester Frank Ward's version of reform Darwinism argued all of the following: People compete, but they also collaborate, big government only hinders real progress in society, and government could help social progress by promoting education and eliminating poverty EXCEPT: |
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| Humanity can control the process of evolution. |
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| John Dewey's instrumentalism: |
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| Said that ideas were instruments for action. |
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| Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain: |
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| Was the first great writer from west of the Appalachians. |
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| Stephen Crane and Jack London belonged to a literary movement called: |
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| Progress and Poverty argued that: |
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| Nobody had the right to the value that accrued from the land. |
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| Between 1866 and 1888, as people moved to the suburbs and became prosperous: |
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| Churches followed, abandoning their sites in the cities. |
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| The social gospel movement argued that: |
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| Greed was a crime against nature. |
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| Settlement house workers, in so far as they were paid, made up: |
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| But a fraction of all gainfully employed women. |
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| In 1869, the women's movement split on the issue of: |
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| Whether or not the movement should concentrate on female suffrage to the exclusion of other feminist causes. |
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| The National Consumers League: |
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| Sought to make the public aware of labor conditions. |
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| wrote Progress and Poverty. |
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| Samuel Langhorne Clemens... |
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| wrote under the name Mark Twain. |
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| started the New England Women's Club. |
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| preached the social gospel. |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton... |
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| founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. |
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| was a believer in Nietzsche's doctrine of superman. |
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| was the chief spokesperson for reform Darwinism. |
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| True/False: By 1920 more than half the U.S. population was urban. |
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| True/False: The spread of mass transit was a major factor in the growth of the suburbs. |
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| True/False: Tenement housing gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions. |
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| True/False: One major task in big cities was disposing of horse waste. |
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| True/False: As late as 1900, most New York City residents were still native-born Americans. |
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| True/False: The peak decade of immigration was the 1890s. |
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| True/False: Padrones were hiring agents who secured jobs for immigrants in return for a share of their wages. |
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| True/False: In major cities, politics was often a form of public entertainment. |
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| True/False: Most Asian immigrants entered the United States at Charleston, South Carolina, rather than at Ellis Island. |
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| True/False: Saloons were the poor man's social clubs during the late nineteenth century. |
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| True/False: Major league baseball, integrated in the 1880s, was the first professional sport to treat blacks and whites equally (at least on the field). |
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| True/False: The modern American graduate school is based on the model of German universities. |
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| True/False: Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, wrote Roughing It. |
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| True/False: Jane Addams was the leading female novelist of the late nineteenth century. |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued that Susan B. Anthony's push for voting rights was "biologically and morally misguided." |
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