CH 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization

Which of the following four elements was not

essential for creating massive urban growth in late

nineteenth-century America?

• electric lighting

• communication improvements

• skyscrapers

• settlement houses

Which of the following did the settlement

house movement offer as a means of relief for

working-class women?

• childcare

• job opportunities

• political advocacy

• relocation services

Why did African Americans consider moving

from the rural South to the urban North following

the Civil War?

• to be able to buy land

• to avoid slavery

• to find wage-earning work

• to further their education

Which of the following is true of late

nineteenth-century southern and eastern

European immigrants, as opposed to their western

and northern European predecessors?

• Southern and eastern European immigrants

  tended to be wealthier.

• Southern and eastern European immigrants

  were, on the whole, more skilled and able

  to find better paying employment.

• Many southern and eastern European

  immigrants acquired land in the West,

  while western and northern European

  immigrants tended to remain in urban

  centers.

• Ellis Island was the first destination for

  most southern and eastern Europeans.

Which of the following was a popular pastime

for working-class urban dwellers?

• football games

• opera

• museums

• amusement parks

Which of the following was a disadvantage of

machine politics?

• Immigrants did not have a voice.

• Taxpayers ultimately paid higher city taxes

  due to graft.

• Only wealthy parts of the city received

  timely responses.

• Citizens who voiced complaints were at

  risk for their safety.

Which of the following statements accurately

represents Thorstein Veblen’s argument in The

Theory of the Leisure Class?

• All citizens of an industrial society would

  rise or fall based on their own innate merits.

• The tenets of naturalism were the only laws

  through which society should be governed.

• The middle class was overly focused on its

  own comfort and consumption.

• Land and natural resources should belong

  equally to all citizens.

Which of the following was not an element of

realism?

• social Darwinism

• instrumentalism

• naturalism

• pragmatism