CH19 Flashcards
- When did the explosion of urban population growth occur in the
United States?
The mid-nineteenth century
- What was the impact of AC power for electricity?
It allowed urban centers to physically cover greater areas
- In the same way that electric lights spurred greater factory production and economic growth, what increased business through the more rapid pace of demand?
The telephone
- Prior to the 1880s, the most common form of transportation within
cities was what?
The omnibus
- The last limitation that large cities had to overcome was what?
The ever-increasing need for space
- By one 1900 estimate, in the New York City borough of Manhattan
alone, there were how many estimated tenement houses?
There were nearly fifty thousand tenement houses.
- The vast majority of participants in the Great Migration ended up in
which section of the United States?
The Northeast and Upper Midwest
- How were African Americans able to financially participate in the
Great Migration?
Although many lacked the funds to move themselves north, factory owners and other businesses that sought cheap labor assisted the migration.
- What regions/countries saw more immigrants migrate to the United
States in 1910 than any other?
Northern and Western Europe
- What was the American Protective Association and what was it
responsible for?
The Chief political activist to promote legislation curbing immigration in the U.S. They were responsible for the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 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?
Machine politics
- What impact did the machine political system have on the United
States in the late 19th century?
It was more efficient for citizens than city hall
- For the wealthy and elite of the 19th century what forms of
entertainment were preferred?
Classical Music Concerts
v14. For the new middle class which arose in the late 19th century, relief from the trials of the cities came through what?
Education and suburbanization
- The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 supported what field?
The growth of higher education
- Who sought to champion middle- and upper-class progressive
reforms in the late 19th century?
Frederick Law Olmsted
- One of the first to promote the theory of evolution was whom?
Charles Darwin
- 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?
Racism
- Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Thorstein Veblen were also
influential in spreading critiques of what during the late 19th century?
The Industrial Age
