Immigration and Urbanization

Question 1

Social reformers believed that society's problems could be fixed by

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regulating the economy and helping those in need

Question 2

Which of the following organizations formed exchanges to help farmers

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The Farmer's Alliance

Question 3

Many immigrants left Europe to escape poverty, social class restrictions, famine, and

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religious persecution

Question 4

Political machines provided city dwellers with many necessities, but many of them grew rich by

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graft

Question 5

To win votes of poor whites during the 1890s, Democratic leaders in the South began appealing

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to racism

Question 6

William Tweed was

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the party boss of a political machine

Question 7

In the late 1800s, the most common form of mass transit was the

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horsecar

Question 8

Between 1860 and 1899, an average of 187 lynchings occurred each year, with the majority in

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Southern states

Question 9

in 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of

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"separate but equal

Question 10

In late 19th C, doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers, teachers, made up a growing

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middle class

Question 11

Which established professional civil service by requiring some govt. jobs require written exams

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the Pendleton Act

Question 12

Immigrant children learned English and were taught about Am. History in a process called

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Americanization

Question 13

The Supreme Court case Wabash v. Illinois established the principal that

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only the fed government can regulate interstate commerce

Question 14

In the early 1860s, Chinese immigrants came to the United States to

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work on the transcontinental railroad

Question 15

Nativism in the late 1800s was focused on Asian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, and

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eastern European immigrants

Question 16

Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants

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would work for low wages

Question 17

Crime was a growing problem in American cities in the late 19th C, but even bigger threats were

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disease and pollution

Question 18

The failure of the Grange to address economic problems of farmers in late 1800s led to forming

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the People's Party

Question 19

Social Darwinism was used by some industrial leaders to justify

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laissez-faire capitalism

Question 20

Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to

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postpone fight for civil rights and concentrate on economics

Question 21

In late 19th C urban America, most people who live in "streetcar suburbs" were

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middle class

Question 22

Tammany Hall was the name of a

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political machine

Question 23

Which of the African Am. leaders was concerned with protecting and exercising voting rights?

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W.E.B. Dubois

Question 24

In which American city did the first salaried baseball team play?

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Cincinnati

Question 25

The philosophy of Social Darwinism applied Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to

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human society and competition

Question 26

The Social Gospel movement worked to better conditions in cities according to

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biblical ideals of charity and justice

Question 27

The world's first skyscraper, built in 1885, was

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10 stories tall

Question 28

In 1886, African Am. farmers responded to discrimination they faced in the South by forming

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Colored Farmers National Alliance

Question 29

The Workingman's Party of California was formed to

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fight Chinese immigration

Question 30

In response to the Supreme Court's ruling in Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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