CH19

Question 1

1. When did the explosion of urban population growth occur in the
   United States?

Answer 1

The mid-nineteenth century

Question 2

2. What was the impact of AC power for electricity?

Answer 2

It allowed urban centers to physically cover greater areas

Question 3

3. In the same way that electric lights spurred greater factory production and economic growth, what increased business through the more rapid pace of demand?

Answer 3

The telephone

Question 4

4. Prior to the 1880s, the most common form of transportation within
   cities was what?

Answer 4

The omnibus

Question 5

5. The last limitation that large cities had to overcome was what?

Answer 5

The ever-increasing need for space

Question 6

6. By one 1900 estimate, in the New York City borough of Manhattan
   alone, there were how many estimated tenement houses?

Answer 6

There were nearly fifty thousand tenement houses.

Question 7

7. The vast majority of participants in the Great Migration ended up in
   which section of the United States?

Answer 7

The Northeast and Upper Midwest

Question 8

8. How were African Americans able to financially participate in the
   Great Migration?

Answer 8

Although many lacked the funds to move themselves north, factory owners and other businesses that sought cheap labor assisted the migration.

Question 9

9. What regions/countries saw more immigrants migrate to the United
   States in 1910 than any other?

Answer 9

Northern and Western Europe

Question 10

10. What was the American Protective Association and what was it
    responsible for?

Answer 10

The Chief political activist to promote legislation curbing immigration in the U.S. They were responsible for the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 11

11. For the working-class residents of America’s cities, one practical way of coping with the challenges of urban life was to take advantage of
    the system of what?

Answer 11

Machine politics

Question 12

12. What impact did the machine political system have on the United
    States in the late 19th century?

Answer 12

It was more efficient for citizens than city hall

Question 13

13. For the wealthy and elite of the 19th century what forms of
    entertainment were preferred?

Answer 13

Classical Music Concerts

Question 14

v14. For the new middle class which arose in the late 19th century, relief from the trials of the cities came through what?

Answer 14

Education and suburbanization

Question 15

15. The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 supported what field?

Answer 15

The growth of higher education

Question 16

16. Who sought to champion middle- and upper-class progressive
    reforms in the late 19th century?

Answer 16

Frederick Law Olmsted

Question 17

17. One of the first to promote the theory of evolution was whom?

Answer 17

Charles Darwin

Question 18

18. African American poet, playwright, and novelist of the realist period, Paul Laurence Dunbar was more willing to deal with what issue than
    other Americans at the time of his work?

Answer 18

Racism

Question 19

19. Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Thorstein Veblen were also
    influential in spreading critiques of what during the late 19th century?

Answer 19

The Industrial Age