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Chapter 19 Reading Review

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11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Beginning in the 1850s and accelerating in the late nineteenth century, the spread of railroads in the United States spurred the growth of

suburbs.

crime.

skyscrapers.

nightlife.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What allowed engineers and planners in the second half of the nineteenth century to develop a new urban geography in the United States?

New technologies

The upsurge in immigration

Europe's decline

A gradual change in climate

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The nation's first electric trolley car system was built in which American city?

New York

Boston

Richmond

Philadelphia

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did big cities in the United States become sites of manufacturing as well as finance and trade after the Civil War?

There were now enough immigrants in urban areas to work in factories.

City governments had begun to welcome factories for their property taxes.

The high skills demanded in new manufacturing could only be found in cities.

Steam engines allowed factory operators to move away from water-driven power.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did adoption of steam power change manufacturing in the middle and late nineteenth century?

By moving it to rural areas

By vastly expanding scale

By calling for more skilled laborers

By raising costs

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which city was the first to build an underground railroad line?

Richmond

Chicago

New York

Boston

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were skyscrapers an impetus to urban development?

They made it possible to crowd more work and living space into a given area.

They were cheap to build because of the falling cost of steel.

They gave a city a unique skyline that helped identify it.

They became home to huge factories that employed growing numbers of city residents.

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