Questions

Question 0

By 1900 the population increases to

Answer 0

30 million cities rural 46 million

Question 1

What three groups moved to the cities post civil war

Answer 1

Immigrants, African Americans and rural residents

Question 2

3 cities top 1 million in population by 1900

Answer 2

NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia

Question 3

What symbolized the industrial and urban potential of America

Answer 3

The creating of the Brooklyn bridge in 1883

Question 4

___ immigrants those that arrived to 1880 and percent

Answer 4

Old,85

Question 5

___ immigrants that arrived after 1880

Answer 5

New, 80

Question 6

Pushing factors

Answer 6

Population pressures, economic conditions after 1880, religious and political persecution

Question 7

Pulling factors

Answer 7

Need for labor, recruitment campaigns by american companies , education opportunities

Question 8

Economic depression: how many were out of and what did others recieve

Answer 8

3 million, and others received lower wages

Question 9

ED: what percent wage was cut with the same percent divined for stock holders

Answer 9

10 percent

Question 10

President blank sent blank

Answer 10

President Hayes, federal troops

Question 11

Result of ED

Answer 11

Strike was a failure , yet Union membership surges

Question 12

What caused the Labor controversy

Answer 12

Haymarket square (Chicago) riot 1886

Question 13

1920, nearly how many immigrants in black

Answer 13

30 million, steerage class

Question 14

What is the golden door

Answer 14

New York City

Question 15

1900 approximately blank immigrants lived in cities, approximately blank were single young men

Answer 15

1/3 & 75%

Question 16

Blank was processing center, over how,any million passed through it, blank (sf) processing center for Asians

Answer 16

Ellis island, 12 million, angel island

Question 17

By 1910 how many Chinese and Japanese immigrated into U.S.

Answer 17

300k Chinese and 150k Japanese

Question 18

1882 what act

Answer 18

Chinese exclusion act

Question 19

Describe photocrasy

Answer 19

As big businesses grew fear arouse that power would be based on wealth

Question 20

What was typical work week ? Wages ?

Answer 20

60-70 hours, 1.50-3.00

Question 21

Labor movement started because of ?

Answer 21

Concern of wages, hours and working conditions

Question 22

Yearly pay for white collar laborer

Answer 22

$500

Question 23

How many children worked in the work force? How many women earned wages ?

Answer 23

1.7million, women 4million

Question 24

White collar jobs were available to

Answer 24

High school grads

Question 25

The creation of chains stores mail order houses as brand names grew

Answer 25

Montgomery ward ( Macy ) Richard Sears ( Sears )

Question 26

What a sweatshop

Answer 26

Small room used for clothing piece work beginning in the 19c

Question 27

What did mechanization lead to

Answer 27

Tailors were replaced by sweatshop workers

Question 28

What is the Knights of labor and who led it

Answer 28

They attempted to create one giant national union of craft and industrial workers. Opposed strikes and supported negotiations ( 700,000 members ) led by Terence V. Powderly

Question 29

What was the american federation of labor and who was it led by ?

Answer 29

Goal was to create a federation of craft unions, used of collective bargaining to achieve desired outcomes. Led by Samuel Gompers

Question 30

Domestic leisure

Answer 30

Card, parlor, yard game

Question 31

Entertainment outside home

Answer 31

Baseball, circus, football

Question 32

What made evening time entertaining and pleasureful

Answer 32

Street lights and street cars

Question 33

What is new women

Answer 33

Women with self supporting careers

Question 34

What do me women want

Answer 34

End of gender discrimination and oppose and resent the concepts of a separate sphere and cult of domesticity

Question 35

During the 20th century

Answer 35

Beginning of street permits, construction of skyscrapers. Street cars allowed growth of suburbs

Question 36

Design principle

Answer 36

Form follows function

Question 37

Tenements house working class

Answer 37

Overcrowding, an inadequate sanitation, poor ventilation, polluted water

Question 38

Urban . Problems

Answer 38

Poor public health and juvenile crime