Chapter 18 Quiz

The "new immigration" of the 1890s included all of the following groups EXCEPT

• Irish
• Russian
• Italian
• Greeks

The highest ranking member of the urban political machine was called the

• party boss

• commissioner

• governor

• robber baron

All of the following contributed to the growth of cities EXCEPT

• cheap land in the inner cities
• the invention of the skyscraper
• the invention of the elevator
• mass transportation

New immigrants in the late 19th century had a tendency to live in

• ethnic neighborhoods in the inner city
• rural areas in the South
• small towns in the West
• suburbs of the large cities

The attempts to implement reforms based on Christian principles was called

• the Social Gospel
• the Great Awakening
• fundamental Christianity
• the Moral Majority

Upper class men and women like Jane Addams worked to help immigrants in places called

• settlement houses
• utopian communities
• ghettoes
• city missions

In general, artists and writers responded to industrialization with

• accurate depictions of life called realism
• retreat into forms of fantasy
• nationalistic support for growth
• escapist views of the frontier and landscapes

Popular culture of the late 19th century included all of the following EXCEPT

• radio
• mass-circulated newspapers
• professional sports
• traveling circuses

All of the following were forces pushing Europeans to emigrate to the United States EXCEPT:

• the poverty of displaced European farmworkers driven from land by political turmoil

• overcrowding and joblessness in cities as a result of the European population boom

• religious persecution, particularly of Jews in eastern Europe

• the rise of Fascism in Germany and Communism in Russia

The evolution of mass transit in the major cities of the U S led to more people living:

• closer to where they worked

• in suburbs

• near respected schools

• in neighborhoods with similar ethnicity as themselves