Chapter 20

Question 1

During the ___ century __ went through many ___ and ____, ____, and _____ changes.

New____ can be seen in the ___ and in ___ about ___, ____, ____ and _____.

Answer 1

19th; PR; political; economic; social; cultural

ideas, arts; ideas; progress; modernization; order; prosperity.

Question 2

_____ growth, the _____ of ______, and the _____ of the _____ ( day laborer’s passbook) fed ____ ____.

Answer 2

Economic; abolition; slavery; elimination; Libreta; urban; growth

Question 3

\_\_\_\_ groups began to form, bringing new\_\_\_\_, an \_\_\_\_ for new \_\_\_\_\_, and new\_\_\_\_ . They would read:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Answer 3

Literary, expectations, eagerness, ideas, concerns

1. Newspapers
2. Puerto Rican literary works
3. Literature from abroad
4. Pamphlets on politics or philosophy

Question 4

Towns experienced considerable growth because:
1.
2.

Answer 4

1. people needed to find works

2. They had little chances of acquiring land

Question 5

During the final decades life centered around the ______, the ______ and the ______ _____ . ______ and _______, ______ ______, ______ ancestors to pharmacies)

Answer 5

time square; city hall; Catholic; church.

Shops; stands; liquor; stores; boticas

Question 6

____ opinion began to develop, as ____, _____ and _____ about ______ and _____ took hold.

Answer 6

Public; ideas; perceptions; attitudes; government; society

Question 7

During the final ____ of the ____ century the ____ created new _____ of public order.

Answer 7

third; 19th, government, codes.

Question 8

Since in the cities ____ and ____ converged the ____ and ____ classed and _______ administrators felt uneasy with what they saw among the populace.

Answer 8

rich, poor, middle; upper, colonial

Question 9

The _____ classes saw themselves as decent people and saw the _____ as ___, ____, ____, ______ to ______, and even _____.

Answer 9

upper; poor, lazy, dirty, lawless, prone, vices, sinful.

Question 10

The government responded to the islands social ills, which included:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
with:
1.
2.
3.

Answer 10

1. alcoholism
prostitution
3. delinquency
4. common-law unions
5. child abandonment
6. poverty

1. sanitation campaigns
2. Charitable Institutions were built
3. Projects for social reform were planned

Question 11

All these problems were said to be the results of the island’s _____ and _____ problems and ____ of proper ____, ____ _____, and _____.

Answer 11

political; economic; lack educations, good, manners, morality

Question 12

There was a campaign to establish a ____ _____ ____.

* IN _____ school was made _____. (age__)

Answer 12

mandatory, educational, system

1865; mandatory; 7

Question 13

this campaign was ____ successful.
Municipalities lacked____, colonial authorities lacked ______, and families needed the children to work in the _____/_____.

Answer 13

NOT;

funds, enthusiasm, farms/ house.

Question 14

In ____ there was a second ____.

It ______ that ______ went to ____.

Answer 14

1880; decree; checked, children, school