American Yawp Chapter 18

In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry?

Chicago

How did railroads transform the American economy?

Inspired the development of organized labor to meet the needs of a permanent working class

Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities

1920

By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population?

60%

All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT

Rotary clubs

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party?

Democratic

All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT

They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that agricultural diversification would lead to economic development

From 1880 to 1950, approximately _______ African Americans were murdered by white mobs.

5,000

________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.

Ida B. Wells

What tactics were used to disenfranchise black voters?

All of the above (a. Poll taxes b. Literacy tests c. Violence and intimidation)

What was the Lost Cause?

A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves

What was the most important aspect of the southern economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Agriculture

What was the "tainted money debate?"

The decision whether the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would accept a large donation by John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following statements regarding "muscular Christianity" are true:

All of the above (a. Motivated by a fear that the country had become a nation of emasculated men b. Sought to stiffen young men's' backbones by putting them in touch with their primal manliness c. Built summer camps and gymnasiums where young American men could strengthen their bodies and spirits)

Which of these authors criticized Victorian era gender norms?

Both (a. Charlotte Perkins Gilman b. Kate Chopin)