APUSH Ch 19-20

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.

How did the development of outlying suburbs in the middle and late nineteenth century change the social structure of cities?

• By separating well-off suburbanites from working-class urbanites

• By forcing the poor to live in far-flung suburbs and rely on commuting to get to work

• By making suburbs predominantly female and cities largely male

• By segregating African Americans into outlying suburbs

Which technological innovation transformed urban nightlife in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

• Recorded music

• Automotive transportation

• Telephone communications

• Electric wiring

Which of the following statements assesses the impact of New York's Tenement House Law of 1901 on the 44,000 tenements that existed at the time?

• The law succeeded because of the cooperation of private interests.

• It failed to change older structures because reform was not profitable.

• The law never passed due to opposition from tenement landlords.

• It spurred gentrification and pushed the poor out of the city.

Who were the "muckrakers" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?

• Urban sanitation workers

• Journalists who promoted reform

• Vaudeville performers

• Labor union organizers

What were the political machines that played such a vital role in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

• Machines that counted the large numbers of votes cast by urban residents

• Local party bureaucracies that controlled elected and appointed offices

• Groups of reformers who challenged corrupt urban political practices

• Private contractors who donated their services to cities in exchange for power

What prompted urban reform movements in the 1890s?

• Widespread suffering from the depression of that decade

• Disgust with machine corruption

• Better civic education given to immigrants

• City governments bankrupted by corruption

In the late nineteenth century, many cities cut death rates from typhoid, yellow fever, and cholera by instituting what?

• Publicly funded vaccination programs

• Municipal hand-washing campaigns

• Local pure food and drug laws

• New sewage and drainage systems

Which statement assesses the early-twentieth-century crusade against prostitution in the United States?

• It succeeded at rooting out the vice until it emerged again during the Great Depression.

• The antiprostitution campaign was undermined by the silence of the federal government on the issue.

• While the crusade did not eliminate prostitution, it improved the living conditions of women in the trade.

• The crusade pushed prostitution out of brothels and into the street.

Which statement assesses the consequences of the Triangle fire in New York City in 1911?

• The workplace disaster led to the creation of a federal factory commission.

• The fire showed that only stronger laws could alleviate sweatshop conditions.

• The fire prompted dramatic reforms in the organization of fire departments.

• The fire further deepened corruption at Tammany Hall.