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Test review for chapter covering the growth of American cities between the 1870s and 1920s.
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1
Which African-American leader felt blacks would achieve equality by gaining in economic status?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Jane Addams
2
Which was a method used by southern states to keep African-Americans from voting?
Proof of land ownership
Secret ballots
Patronage
Poll tax
3
In 2015 more people died by what than shark attacks?
Taking selfies
Picking their nose and eating it
Fanny pack malfunctions
Riding zip lines
4
Supreme Court case in 1896 making separate but equal facilities legal:
Jim Crow Vs. Your Mom
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Desegregation Mandates
Jordan Rules
5
Steam and electricity replacing human muscle is a description of what?
Industrialism
Business cycle
Social Darwinism
Economic development
6
Which was a new method of mass transit in the early 1900s that we discussed in our lecture?
Busses
Taxis
Subways
Monorail cars
7
Which technological improvement helped develop cities in the Gilded Age?
Fiber optic cable
Skyscrapers
Taxis
Radio
8
Who created the Hull House in Chicago to aid immigrants in assimilation?
Booker T. Washington
Grover Cleveland
Jane Addams
Daniel Burnham
9
Which 1896 Supreme Court case allowed states to legally segregate whites and blacks?
Jim Crow
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Roe vs. Wade
Brown vs. The Board of Education
10
What year did my father graduate high school?
1970
1960
1967
He didn't graduate
11
Which statement about political machines is false?
They found jobs for immigrants
Immigrants did not like them
They often traded votes for support
They were often corrupt
12
What's the focal point of William Tweed in this cartoon?
His corruption
His honesty
His reforms
His belly
13
What does this picture represent?
Spacious housing for immigrants
Poor urban sanitation
Overcrowding of urban tenements
Unsafe working conditions
14
What is the Twitter bird's name?
Yosemite
Adolphus Rudolph Bernard Twitty
Larry
Tweety
15
Osama bin Laden & Hitler both died on which day of the year?
July 4th
December 24th
January 1st
May 1st
16
Fear of immigrants due to high unemployment and declining wages led to what legislation?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Italian Limitation Act
Open Door Policy
Domino Effect
17
Jane Addams was a reformer known for setting up what?
Orphanages
Settlement houses
Welfare offices
Immigrant hospitals
18
Which US city was planned by Daniel Burnham & hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893?
New York
Boston
Chicago
Houston
19
What movement was created as an opposition to Social Darwinism?
Segregation
Populism
Social Gospel
Progressivism
20
Old Immigrants experienced less nativism because they mostly what?
Were poor
Were uneducated
Weren't Protestant
Spoke English
21
Which was NOT a political problem faced during the Gilded Age?
Honest candidates
Election fraud
Patronage
Political machines
22
What were laws in southern states designed to limit the rights of African-Americans called?
African-American Exclusion Act
Separate but Equal
Apartheid
Jim Crow Laws
23
Which 1888 presidential candidate stood for low tariffs?
Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
24
An official giving a job to someone who worked on their campaign is an example of what?
Voter fraud
Civil Service
Patronage
Extortion
25
Which was NOT a problem faced by city dwellers in the early 1900s?
Job opportunities
Unhealthy drinking water
Crime
Poor sanitation
26
What is a tax on an imported good which encourages you to buy an American good called?
Tariff
Income tax
Excise tax
Graft
27
What was created to make sure government jobs were awarded based on merit?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Tariffs
28
California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named what?
Adolph Hitler
Josef Stalin
Cliff Owens
Jesus Christ
29
Where would immigrants from Europe likely have entered the US in the early 1900s?
Alcatraz
Boston Harbor
Ellis Island
Angel Island
30
Plessy vs. Ferguson = _______ but ________
Together but different
Together but equal
Separate but equal
Separate but different
31
Where would Chinese immigrants likely have entered the US in the early 20th century?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Alcatraz Island
Los Angeles Harbor
32
Which statement most correctly summarizes education around the Turn of the Century?
Black & white students went to school together
Children were beginning to attend school at an earlier age.
Schools were shutting down
Fewer people attended school then earlier years
33
About 8,000 Americans are injured every year by what?
Seat belts
Overly tight yoga pants
Cell phones
Musical Instruments
34
According to the textbook, what was Frederick Law Olmsted's crowning achievement?
Central Park in NYC
Empire State Building
Planning Chicago
Flatiron Building
35
Putting what on an insect bite can relieve the itching and swelling?
Camel blood
Jello
Cat urine
Dog feces
36
Which of the following would be a PULL factor for US immigration
Plentiful factory jobs
Suppression of Polish people
Jewish persecution in Europe
A poor US economy
37
True or False: Birds do NOT urinate.
True
False
38
Daniel Burnham is best known as the architect of what?
Empire State building
Golden Gate Bridge
Flat Iron building
Sears Tower
39
Which political cartoonist drew this?
Thomas Nast
William Tweed
Homer Plessy
Daniel Burnham
40
When hippos are upset, what color does their sweat turn?
Green
Yella
Pink
Red
41
In Galveston it is illegal to have a what run loose on the beach?
Pit bull
Midget
Camel
Moose
42
Which was NOT a reason why immigrants chose to settle in cities
Communities of their countrymen
Plentiful jobs
Access to housing
Overcrowding
43
Which of the following would be an example of a PUSH factor for US immigration?
Plentiful American jobs
Finding gold in Alaska
Irish Potato Famine
Poor urban sanitation
44
What was the primary reason immigrants came to the US between 1870 and 1920?
Warfare
Urban slums
Tenement houses
Opportunity
