One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because:
it allowed larger numbers of people to become commuters and live away from the central city
by 1900's all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit EXCEPT:
gasoline-powered buses
Tenement houses in New York City:
Had higher mortality rates than among the general population
As a result of overcrowding, sanitation, and ventilation problems in tenements:
the mortality rates among the urban poor was much higher than the general population
What do cholera,typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common?
They were all water related diseases
One of the advantages of the large amount of animal waste generated in early cities was that it:
fertilized vegtable farms outside major cities
Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:
New York City
After 1890, most immigrants were:
from southern and eastern Europe
"Nativists" believed:
immigration threatened traditional American Culture
The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:
orriginally called for a ten-year term
Middle and upper class urban families spent much of their leisure time:
together at home playing games or reading books
Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT:
serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet women
Why did so many of the urban working poor often seek recreation and leisure on street corners and front stoops?
the did not have sufficient free time or money to enjoy many of the other leisure and entertainment options
Frederick Law Olmsted is most famous for designing:
great urban parks in America
All of the following emerged as popular spectator sports with ass appeal in urban areas in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:
shuffleboard
Dr. James Naismith invented:
the game of basketball
The first professional baseball team was the:
The Cincinnati Red Stockings
As America industrialized and immigration increased, access to secondary education in the United States:
expanded drastically
The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890:
established and funded land-grant colleges
Which of the following statements about the expansion of American high education in the late nineteenth century is accurate
colleges remained largely male bastions, but women's access to higher education improved markedly
a strict Darwinist would object to all of the following EXCEPT
a government policy of "hands off" in regard to business
William Graham Sumner:
argued in his book Folkways that is was a mistake for the government to interfere with established customs
Though both embraced "pragmatism" William James and John Dewey differed in their approaches to philosophizing because:
Dewey through himself into progressive social movements, while James did not
John Dewey's "instrumentalism"
said that ideas were instruments for action
The main idea of reform Darwinism was that:
cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress
Baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in nineteenth century America because?
People of all social classes attended the games
In the late nineteenth century, the least likely place you would find a woman spending her leisure time was at a?
Saloon
The Hampton Institute in Virginia, which trained Booker T. Washington after the Civil War, is an example of that era's attention to:
increasing the emphasis placed on vocational education
Why did the U.S. government open Ellis Island?
It was part of a federal effort to take charge of admitting immigrants to the country in light of the corruption that afflicted the city of New York's system.
Women's access to higher education by the end of the century had done what:
expanded significantly to the point that women made up one-third of all college students
All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities EXCEPT
the banishment of animals to outside city limits
The first women's college to teach by the same standards as the best of the men's colleges was
Vassar
Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?
the Far West
Why was the development of cast-iron and steel-frame construction techniques significant to the growth of cities?
They allowed developers to erect high-rise buildings.
By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit
subways, electric trolleys, cable cars, elevated trains
With the move of American cities toward regular trash-collection services, by 1900 what percentage of cities provided this service?
94 percent
The public health officials and municipal engineers that tried to clean up the city and its public health dangers were called:
sanitary reformers
In 1890, New York City had twice as many Irish as:
Dublin
The American Protective Association:
Was a nativist group strongest in the upper Mississippi Valley
All of the following motivated nativists:
anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic sentiments
beliefs in the superiority of earlier generations of immigrants
convictions that Slavic, Italian, Greek, and Jewish immigrants were inferior alarm that immigrants were taking jobs away from Americans
Angel Island was:
the equivalent of Ellis Island located offshore from San Francisco
All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities:
overflowing garbage, untreated sewage, contaminated water, overcrowding
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 significant in American Immigration history?
It was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class
All of the following statements about newspapers in the 19th century are true EXCEPT
They usually did not support either of the political parties
Vaudeville Shows were popular because:
They included something to please every taste, social class, and type.
Facing severe restrictions in their free time, married working women often
found fellowship with other women on the public streets while tending to other responsibilities
Young, urban women eager for recreating often encountered far more obstacles then men because
parents and authorities tried to limit their access to "cheap amusements"
Baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in the 19th century America because:
people of all social classes attended the games
All of the following statements about football are true EXCEPT:
It was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts
The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflected the desire to
Americanize immigrant children
