Exam 18: The Age of the City

Both baseball and football appealed primarily to working-class males.

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

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

Roughly what percentage of the populations of Chicago,New York,and Detroit was made up of immigrants by 1890?

In the late nineteenth century,immigrants in the United States

The Fourth of July celebrations were typically used by working-class Americans to publically demonstrate how well they had assimilated into American society.

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

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

The artist ________,part of the Ashcan school,portrayed the dreariness of American urban slums.

In the 1890s,Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

By the end of the nineteenth century,most public high schools readily accepted women.

By 1900,the transportation systems of American cities included

By the turn of the century,primary and secondary education were nearly universal in the United States.

Which American writer is LEAST associated with the trend toward social realism in literature in the late nineteenth century?

The national network of grocery stores that started in the 1850s was

The nineteenth-century game of "rounders" became the modern sport of

The designers of New York City's Central Park

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

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

The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to