Question 1

Which statement describes the immigrant experience in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Irish and Swedish immigrants were prohibited from obtaining secondary school educations.
B)   Jews were involuntarily confined to ghettos.
C)   Polish and German workers were excluded from the burgeoning labor union movement.
D)   Asian immigrants on the West Coast were made economic scapegoats.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 2

Which group constituted the backbone of the American labor force throughout the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   Skilled laborers
B)   Factory laborers
C)   Common laborers
D)   Sweatshop laborersE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s

Accepted Answer

A)   to avoid conflict with migrant Mexican farmworkers.
B)   to join the Socialist Democratic party.
C)   for economic opportunities and safety.
D)   for religious reasons.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 4

Match the term with the definition.
-Organization created by Samuel Gompers in 1886 that coordinated the activities of craft unions throughout the United States. It worked to achieve immediate benefits for skilled workers.

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) F) and J)
N) H) and I)

Question 5

The direction of corporate goals and policies in the late nineteenth century was increasingly shaped by

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A)   market forces.
B)   workers' demands.
C)   stockholders and financiers.
D)   managers and executives.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 6

How did ideas about race and racism shape the status and treatment of different ethnic groups in nineteenth-century America?

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Question 7

In the late nineteenth century, some established immigrant groups viewed more recent immigrants as

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A)   not being a part of the white race.
B)   being more dependent on government aid.
C)   having an easy time assimilating to life in the United States.
D)   being too critical of the United States.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Match the term with the definition.
-World's fair held in Chicago in 1893 that attracted millions of visitors. The elaborately designed pavilions of the "White City" included exhibits of technological innovation and of cultural exoticism and embodied an urban ideal that contrasted with the realities of Chicago life.

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) A) and H)
N) A) and D)

Question 9

What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890) ?

Accepted Answer

A)   He produced the first internationally recognized American novel.
B)   He empowered the occupants of New York City's Lower East Side tenements.
C)   He forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor.
D)   He convinced established immigrant groups that new immigrants deserved respect.E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 10

The advent of the adding machine, typewriter, and cash register had the greatest impact on

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A)   literate white men.
B)   literate white women.
C)   immigrants who gained skills on the shop floor.
D)   illiterate women who wanted to learn new skills.E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 11

During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for

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A)   overtime pay, paid sick days, and paid vacations.
B)   social revolution and workers' ownership of the means of production.
C)   public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, and equal pay for women.
D)   shorter hours for children and women who worked outside of their homes.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Which of the following developments changed the U.S. garment industry in the 1850s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Independent tailors were replaced by sweatshop workers.
B)   The supply of cheap labor dried up.
C)   Women became the dominant force in its labor unions.
D)   Foreign countries began to manufacture most of the world's clothing.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 13

What late-nineteenth-century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?

Accepted Answer

A)   A developing labor shortage
B)   The rapid decline of immigration to the United States
C)   The ascendancy of urban America
D)   America's frontier spiritE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 14

Discuss the impact of urbanization and industrialization on patterns of leisure in America during the nineteenth century. How were these changes related to the growing division among classes?

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Question 15

Most native-born white women who worked at the end of the nineteenth century held

Accepted Answer

A)   factory production jobs.
B)   jobs doing piecework in their homes.
C)   clerical jobs in offices.
D)   clerk jobs in department stores.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

According to Map 19.2: The Impact of Immigration, to 1910, which of the following states had the highest percentage of immigrant inhabitants?

Accepted Answer

A)   Michigan
B)   South Dakota
C)   Missouri
D)   OregonE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 17

Match the term with the definition.
-The first mass organization of America's working class. Founded in 1869, it attempted to bridge the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, ideology, race, and occupation to build a "universal brotherhood" of all workers.

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 D)

Question 18

How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)   As wives, mothers, or daughters
B)   As single, unskilled wage laborers
C)   As single, skilled workers
D)   As part of educated, well-off familiesE) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

Accepted Answer

A)   They lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land.
B)   The majority had left overcrowded conditions in their homeland to settle in America's farmlands.
C)   They had come to America to escape harsh economic conditions in Germany and Ireland.
D)   They lived in temporary housing in the United States and soon returned to their homes.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 20

Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century

Accepted Answer

A)   through the use of violence and intimidation.
B)   by replacing people with machines.
C)   by forbidding shop-floor workers from talking during the workday.
D)   through hiring factory foremen to supervise every aspect of production.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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What late-nineteenth-century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?

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Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s

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Which of the following describes the majority of immigrants' lifestyles in the United States after 1900?

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Match the term with the definition. -The first mass organization of America's working class. Founded in 1869, it attempted to bridge the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, ideology, race, and occupation to build a "universal brotherhood" of all workers.

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What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890) ?

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