Exam 18: The Age of the City

How had the demographics of immigrants and the patterns of immigration shifted between the 1860s and the 1890s?

The most powerful newspaper chain in the country was owned by ________.

Coney Island provided a way of experiencing mass American culture on an equal footing with people from different backgrounds.

Of the mass entertainment available at the turn of the century,the ________ were the most important.

Electric trolleys were in use in American cities before World War I.

Kate Chopin's shocking novel,________,described a young wife and mother who abandoned her family in search of personal fulfillment.

In the late nineteenth century,the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by

In the nineteenth century,vaudeville theater

In the late nineteenth century,political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the

At the end of the nineteenth century,the participation of women in sports was nearly nonexistent.

In the late nineteenth century,most immigrants to the United States

The ________ school of artists was among the first in America to appreciate expressionism and abstraction.

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to

Reform organizations of the late nineteenth century proved to be more permanent than the urban political machines.

Central to the success of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)was how it

What major problems or needs of large urban centers were improved or eliminated by new technology and science during the late nineteenth century?

Although the plight of poor children in cities often drew the most attention of late nineteenth-century reformers,little was done to improve the children's situations.

In the late nineteenth century,suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by

A Danish immigrant named Jacob Riis is most noted for his book on slum conditions titled ________.

Compared with the first generation,second generation immigrants were more likely to