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Around 1900, if an ordinary American city dweller, whether immigrant or native-born, needed a favor done by a person with authority, he or she would have most likely turned to whom?

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D. An alderman or ward boss

Around the turn of the century, African Americans moving to cities in the North experienced which of the following?

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B. More discrimination than even the most downtrodden European immigrants

Before the Civil War, most manufacturing operations sprang up in

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A. countryside locations.

By 1900, which of the following was the primary means of urban mass transit in the United States?

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C. Trolley car

During the 1890s, what caused voters to start turning away from urban political machines and start embracing urban political reformers?

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A. The economic depression

How did the early twentieth century campaign against urban prostitution affect women working as prostitutes at that time?

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C. By closing brothels, new laws worsened many prostitutes' working conditions.

David Graham Phillips established his credentials as a muckraker when he wrote a scathing analysis on which subject?

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D. The U.S. Senate

Florence Kelley became a famous advocate for

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B. female and child laborers.

In the late nineteenth century, George Washington Plunkitt was

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B. the Tammany ward boss who courted all ethnic groups to win their support.

Suburbs for the well-to-do first began to emerge on the outskirts of major American cities in which of these periods?

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D. Before the Civil War

The City Beautiful movement is associated with which of the following activities?

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C. Attempts to build more and better urban park spaces, including playgrounds and gardens

What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working-class people they served through settlement houses in early twentieth century cities?

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B. The resources and political voice they needed to improve their lives

The rise of nickelodeons, amusement parks, dance halls, vaudeville, and other "cheap amusements" in the late nineteenth-century cities had which of the following effects?

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A. Challenging traditional courtship rituals

The first skyscraper in the United States was built in 1885 in which city?

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B. Chicago

What spurred many big cities' pursuit of state-of-the-art sewage and drainage systems at the end of the nineteenth century?

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A. They sought to improve public health.

What was the primary complaint against trolleys in American cities in the late 1800s?

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D. Their frequent accidents

To what late nineteenth-century phenomenon does the term "private city" refer?

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A. Businesses' role in the creation of urban environments

Which level of government generally saw the most corruption in the late 1800s?

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B. Urban

Which of the following describes metropolitan newspapers in the period after the Civil War?

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A. They expanded to include human-interest stories and society and sports sections.

Which of the following describes the emerging profession of social work at the turn of the nineteenth century?

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C. Most social workers at this time viewed themselves as advocates of social justice.

What made young women vulnerable in the new system of dating and "treating" that emerged in early twentieth-century cities?

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C. Women's low wages

Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas in the early twentieth century?

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B. Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments

What spurred the U.S. Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?

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D. A public uproar caused by Upton Sinclair's realist novel The Jungle

Which of the following describes the urban political machines of the late nineteenth century?

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C. Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble.

Which of the following Hull House volunteers became the first American woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post?

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A. Frances Perkins

Which of the following made the growth of skyscrapers possible?

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B. The development of steel girders, plate glass, and elevators

Which of the following statements characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's attitude toward the muckrakers?

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D. Appalled, he dismissed them as muckrakers who overemphasized America's negative aspects.

Which of the following muckrakers is correctly matched with his or her reform area?

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C. Lincoln Steffens—the corruption of America's urban governments

Which of the following phenomena emerged as an important new influence on urban entertainment in the early twentieth century?

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D. Black music

Which of the following statements characterizes gay culture in early twentieth-century New York?

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C. The city's exuberant gay subculture provoked harassment but officials tolerated its existence.

Which of the following statements characterizes urban political reform efforts in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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C. Some reform mayors modeled their reform efforts on cutting-edge European efforts in cities such as Glasgow and Dusseldorf.

Which of the following statements describes immigrants' accommodation to city life in the United States around 1900?

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A. Many relied on native-language newspapers, the conviviality of saloons, and the assistance of mutual-aid societies.

Which of the following statements describes the anti-black race riots that occurred in cities in the early twentieth century?

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B. Race riots foreshadowed a worsening of urban racial tensions.

The settlement houses that emerged in early twentieth-century cities established which new occupational field?

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A. Social Work

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911 led to which of the following outcomes?

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D. New York State's passage of the most advanced labor code in the country at that time

Which of the following statements most characterizes residential patterns in the typical American city around 1900?

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B. Immigrants from a particular region of a country tended to settle by ethnic group.

Which of these inventions made residents feel safer in urban areas in the late nineteenth century?

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D. Electric light

To what did the Tammany ward boss George Washington Plunkitt refer when he talked about "honest graft"?

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B. Profiting from insider status

Which of these statements describes the newly rising American middle class around 1900?

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B. Many preferred to live in the suburbs because of the safety and space it afforded them.

To what phenomenon did the book title The Shame of the Cities specifically refer?

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B. Urban political corruption

Who was Joseph Pulitzer and what made him significant?

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D. A St. Louis newspaper publisher who built his sales base with sensational investigations

What accounted for the relocation of manufacturing operations into urban areas after the Civil War?

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B. Steam power

Who of the following was the greatest benefactor of public libraries in nineteenth-century America, who in 1881 announced that he would build a library in any city that was prepared to maintain it?

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B. Andrew Carnegie

Why did Galveston, Texas adopt a commission system in 1900, that later became a nationwide model for efficient government?

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C. To rebuild after a hurricane killed roughly 6,000 people

Why was Margaret Sanger indicted for her newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" in the 1910s?

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A. Her discussion of birth control violated obscenity laws.

Where did almost 90 percent of African Americans live in 1900?

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B. The South

Which invention transformed urban and suburban communications in the United States after 1876?

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A. Telephone

Why was Margaret Sanger's newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" significant?

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B. It contributed to launching a national birth control movement.

Why was the New York legislation dealing with safety in factories and enacting wages-and-hour laws for women and children?

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C. Triangle Shirtwaist fire

William Randolph Hearst's and Joseph Pulitzer's sensationalist style of reporting was known as which of the following?