Chapter 25

Question 1

Settlement houses, such as Hull House, engaged in all of the following activities except

Answer 1

evangelical religious instruction

Question 2

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

Answer 2

large department stores

Question 3

Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four

Answer 3

bedroom communities

Question 4

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

Answer 4

were culturally different from previous immigrants

Question 5

A bird of passage was an immigrant who

Answer 5

came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe

Question 6

New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by mainly nativist Americans because

Answer 6

their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical

Question 7

While big city political bosses and their machines were often criticized, they proved necessary and effective in the new urban environment because

Answer 7

they were more effective in serving urban immigrants’ needs than weak state or local governments

Question 8

The major factor in drawing country people off the farm and into the big cities was the

Answer 8

availability of industrial jobs

Question 9

Prominent Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that

Answer 9

the Christian Gospel required that churches address poverty and other burning social issues of the day

Question 10

In the new urban environment, most liberal Protestants

Answer 10

rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture

Question 11

Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley

Answer 11

actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws

Question 12

The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was

Answer 12

the big city

Question 13

In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for

Answer 13

native-born Americans

Question 14

The vast majority of employed female workers in the late nineteenth century were

Answer 14

single

Question 15

Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except

Answer 15

opposed to factory labor

Question 16

The American Protective Association

Answer 16

supported immigration restrictions

Question 17

The intellectual development that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the

Answer 17

biology of Charles Darwin

Question 18

The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to

Answer 18

de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization

Question 19

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

Answer 19

economic independence

Question 20

That a talented tenth of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of

Answer 20

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 21

Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 21

demanded complete equality for African Americans

Question 22

Which of the following was not among the major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era

Answer 22

Harvard University

Question 23

The two late-nineteenth-century newspaper publishers whose competition for circulation fueled the rise of sensationalist yellow journalism were

Answer 23

William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

Question 24

American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by

Answer 24

printing sensationalist stories of sex and scandal

Question 25

General Lewis Wallace’s book, Ben Hur

Answer 25

defended Christianity against Darwinism

Question 26

American novelist’ turn from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged social realism reflected the

Answer 26

materialism and conflicts of the new industrial society

Question 27

By 1900, advocates of women’s suffrage

Answer 27

argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world

Question 28

Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War

Answer 28

baseball

Question 29

The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by

Answer 29

creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomodationists who supported it

Question 30

Henry George argued that the windfall real estate profits caused by rising land prices should be

Answer 30

taxed at a 100 percent rate by the government