Chapter 18 - The Age of the City

The growth of cities in the late 19th century can mostly be attributed to

• natural increase

• immigration

• low rates of disease

• a declining infant mortality rate

(Select all that apply) Most of the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century...

• came from Germany and Scadinavia

• came from Southern and Eastern Europe

• were prosperous and educated

• lacked capital and took unskilled jobs

The arrival of new immigrants to the cities and their distinct cultural identities provoked

• unanimous hospitality and acceptance

• nativist reactions of fear and resentment

• legal rejection that made the U.S. isolationist

• rapid inclusion into highly skilled jobs

As the cities grew, increasing numbers of wealthy people lived in the ​ (a)   while the working class and poor lived in crowded​ (b)   .

• suburbs
• tenements
• urban centers
• mansions

​ (a)   shocked many middle-class Americans with his descriptions and pictures of ​​ (b)   life in his 1890 book, ​ (c)   .

• Jacob Riis
• tenement
• How The Other Half Lives

By the early twentieth century, ​ (a)   were actively crusading to improve the ​ (b)   conditions of cities by advocating the construction of ​ (c)   dispossal systems.

• reformers
• environmental
• sewage

(Select all that apply) Factors that caused strains of the capacities of public and private metropolitan institutions include:

• crime

• fire

• disease

• indigence

• pollution

Political machines and bosses were most infamous for engaging in

• massive city-building projects

• graft and corruption

• honest politics and electioneering

• being the leading voice behind national politics

Besides the creation of vast fortunes, the late 19th century saw the growth and prosperity of the

• working class and blue collar workers

• middle class and white collar workers

• working class and railroad workers

• farming class and the grange

"By defining themselves as ​ (a)   , many ​ (b)   ​ (c)   were able to find a stance from which they could become active participants in ​ (d)   ." pg. 524

• consumers
• middle-class
• women
• public life
• sellers
• working-class
• entrepeneurs
• private life