Exam 18: Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation

A eugenicist would want to encourage marriage between

The main purpose of civil service reform was to

In the early twentieth century, conflicts over appropriate styles of worship within the black church were evidence of

Who of the following could appropriately be referred to as a real-life contemporary version of Theodore Dreiser's character Sister Carrie?

Despite residential segregation, the problems of the urban poor at the end of the nineteenth century became the concern of the middle and upper classes because

Big-city nightlife in the early twentieth century could not have developed without

In response to the arrival of large numbers of Catholics from Southern and Eastern Europe around the turn of the century, German American Catholics urged the Church to

Who popularized the idea of the United States as a melting pot for immigrants in 1908?

Which of the following characterizes the reform agenda of Jane Addams?

Immigrants to the United States around the turn of the twentieth century differed from those of previous eras in that they were

The writings of African American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois spoke to the predicament of first-generation immigrants by

Chicago's Hull House, a community center serving poor immigrants, was founded by

In Document 18.2, A Chinese View of the Statue of Liberty, from 1885, Saum Song Bo remarked that he considered it "an insult to us Chinese to call on us to contribute toward building in this land a pedestal for a Statue of Liberty. That statue represents Liberty holding a torch which lights the passage of those of all nations who come into this country. But are the Chinese allowed to come?" What was he referring to?

American cities became centers of industry as well as commerce at the end of the nineteenth century in response to

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, devastating fires in densely populated cities like Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore led to the

The rise in urban property values in the 1870s and 1880s encouraged

The Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier were evidence of

Demographic records from the early twentieth century suggest that American Christians at that time considered Jewishness

In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was not a factor contributing to the high death rate among young children in cities?

Which of the following was an unintended consequence of racial segregation in the South at the turn of the twentieth century?