Question 1

Which of the following describes the economic survival of the nineteenth-century American working-class family?

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A)   It depended on the employment of every family member.
B)   It was assured as long as the male head of household was able to find a job.
C)   It was assured as long as both parents worked outside the home.
D)   It required the assistance of local social service agencies.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 2

Why did African Americans from the rural South begin moving to northern cities in the late nineteenth century?

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Question 3

How did business expansion and consolidation affect the social structure in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

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A)   Class differences in U.S. society largely disappeared.
B)   Racial differences in the U.S. workforce largely disappeared.
C)   A new class of white male salaried managers emerged.
D)   Women were able to earn higher wages and become managers.E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 4

How did live-in servants change households in the North by 1870?

Accepted Answer

A)   They enabled middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home.
B)   They made domestic service an honorable occupation for native-born American women to pursue.
C)   They had become a fixture of almost three-quarters of all urban households.
D)   They freed working women from the obligation of keeping house after working outside the home all day.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   A new consumer culture
B)   A formal dress code for working women
C)   Changes in minimum-wage laws
D)   Stringent new notions of saving moneyE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

What development led to the emergence of the modern skyscraper in the 1890s?

Accepted Answer

A)   The invention of the elevator
B)   The advent of structural steel
C)   The decline of corporate power
D)   The advent of cast ironE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Question 7

What circumstances enabled U.S. industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Only immigrants were willing to work as hard as the industrialists demanded.
B)   Native-born Americans refused to work for the low wages industrialists offered.
C)   There were no political barriers to hiring immigrants from northern Europe.
D)   Railroad expansion and low steamship fares brought many immigrants to America.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Match the term with the definition.
-Small room used for clothing piecework beginning in the later nineteenth century. As mechanization transformed the garment industry with the introduction of foot-pedaled sewing machines and mechanical cloth-cutting knives, independent tailors were replaced with these workers, hired by contractors to sew pieces into clothing.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Federation of Labor (AFL) 
B)  bossism
C)  cult of domesticity
D)  Ellis Island
E)  family economyF) global migrationG) Great Railroad StrikeH) Haymarket bombingI) Knights of LaborJ) sweatshopK) "typewriters"L) World's Columbian ExpositionM) G) and I)
N) B) and C)

Question 9

Which statement describes late-nineteenth-century American libraries?

Accepted Answer

A)   They made up the most extensive free public-library system in the world.
B)   They were popular with laborers who took advantage of their free literacy programs.
C)   They were found only in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City.
D)   They were privately funded and open only to members who could afford to pay.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 10

Beginning in the 1870s, American men of all classes were united in their passion for

Accepted Answer

A)   baseball.
B)   dance halls.
C)   theater.
D)   church socials.E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 11

How did the percentage of children under age fifteen working in the paid labor force in the United States change during the years leading up to World War I?

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A)   It gradually decreased until it fell below 5 percent of the population.
B)   It dropped to virtually nothing owing to strict enforcement of child labor laws.
C)   It increased decade by decade.
D)   It remained much the same as it had been in 1870.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Working-class courtship rituals in urban, industrial America in the late nineteenth century

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A)   remained remarkably similar to those of preindustrial America.
B)   changed in that women met prospective husbands only through their families.
C)   consisted of informal meetings at dance halls and other commercial settings.
D)   favored working-class women who no longer had to rely on men to pay for their entertainment.E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 13

How did late-nineteenth-century industrialization lead to increased social segregation in cities across the United States?

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Question 14

What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s?

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A)   The power of the church to control mass entertainment
B)   The Statue of Liberty's attraction for tourists
C)   The importance of nature as a retreat from urban life
D)   The rise of mass entertainment in AmericaE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 15

What happened to the World's Columbian Exposition site after it closed its doors in October 1894?

Accepted Answer

A)   Chicago's unemployed and homeless took over its buildings.
B)   Chicago made it an official landmark.
C)   Real estate developers transformed it into a luxury housing complex.
D)   Chicago ordered the buildings burned to the ground.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 16

Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?

Accepted Answer

A)   The annexation of the rural areas surrounding America's major cities
B)   The migration of people from the rural areas of Europe and the United States
C)   The dramatic increase in the American birthrate
D)   The combination of a rising birthrate and urban annexationE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 17

Throughout much of the nineteenth century, middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they

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A)   work outside the home to make ends meet.
B)   integrate workplace and home as much as possible.
C)   exist within the private sphere of the household.
D)   extend their sphere of influence to include charity work.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 18

Compare and contrast the work of white and black women in the late nineteenth century, both inside and outside of the home.

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Question 19

Match the term with the definition.
-Financial contributions by multiple members of a household for the survival of the family. From the late nineteenth century into the twentieth, many working-class families depended on the wages of all family members, regardless of gender or age.

Accepted Answer

A)  American Federation of Labor (AFL) 
B)  bossism
C)  cult of domesticity
D)  Ellis Island
E)  family economyF) global migrationG) Great Railroad StrikeH) Haymarket bombingI) Knights of LaborJ) sweatshopK) "typewriters"L) World's Columbian ExpositionM) I) and L)
N) E) and L)

Question 20

Describe the effect of the working-class economy on urban women and children.

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