Exam 18: The Age of the City

Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York City's ________.

In the late nineteenth century,the population in urban areas of the United States

What attitudes and beliefs found in America resulted in little being done to improve urban poverty during the late nineteenth century?

The principle force behind the creation of great public buildings in the late nineteenth century was

In the last decades of the nineteenth century,incomes in the United States

In the late nineteenth century,urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

In 1876,baseball teams banded together to form the ________.

Pragmatic philosopher John Dewey promoted a democratic approach to education.

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

In 1882,the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their nationality were

In late nineteenth-century cities,it was not uncommon for the very wealthy to live in the heart of the city.

In the late nineteenth century,most city parks were simply lands between houses and other buildings that had yet to be developed.

How and why did American attitudes change during the nineteenth century regarding leisure activities?

The new consumer economy appealed to women as consumers and hired women as sales clerks.

How did high culture and popular culture differ at the turn of the century?

By the end of the nineteenth century,efforts to restrict the numbers of immigrants kept out only a small number of those who wished to immigrate to the United States.

At its inception,the ________ controlled all American telephone service,eventually becoming one of the most powerful corporations in America.

The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897.

The artist ________ explored the starkness and loneliness of the modern city in paintings such as Automat.

In the late nineteenth century,crime in large American urban centers