Chapter 18 The Age of the City

The largest number of immigrants to the U.S. in the late nineteenth century came from

• southern and eastern Europe

• Mexico and Central America

• Great Britain and Germany

• China and Japan

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago, New York, and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

• 80-85%

• 60-65%

• 50-60%

• 40-50%

Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to

• hold on to their old ethnic habits

• lose faith in the U.S. due to the hardships they experienced

• break from their traditional culture

• resist external social pressures to assimilate

One significant innovation of urban America in the late nineteenth century was

• large public parks

• city fire-fighting companies

• paved roads

• public hospitals

The "city-beautiful" movement in the U.S. was inspired, in part, by

• the economic depression of 1893

• the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago

• the new technology of skyscrapers

• None of these answers is correct

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan in New York was

• far greater than the most crowded Eureopean cities

• greater than in all major American cities except Boston

• signicantlly lower that that of most major European cities

• significantly lower that the density of New York today

Tenement buildings in urban America were

• first constructed in Chicago in the 1880s

• intended to be occupied as single-family dwellings

• initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor

• subsidized by city governments

In 1884, the first "modern" skyscraper built in the U.S.

• had no elevators

• was located in Boston

• was built entirely of brick

• was constructed with steel girders

In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

• saw the Salvation Army focus primarily on establishing shelters for the homeless

• saw charitable organizations try to limit aid to only those deemed "deserving poor."

• generally were ed by reformers who had grown up in impoverished communities

• included federally-funded studies attempting to identify the causes of poverty

In the late nineteenth century, crime in large American urban centers

• was often blamed on the violent proclivities of immigrant groups

• swelled in the twenty years between 1880 and 1900

• led many city governments to create professional public police departments

• All of the above