U.S. History Ch. 18

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

Her discussion of birth control violated obscenity laws

What describes the urban political machines of the late nineteenth century?

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

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

By closing brothels, new laws worsened many prostitutes working conditions

Before the Civil War, most manufacturing operations sprang up in

Countryside locations

What invention made residents feel safer in urban areas in the late nineteenth century?

The electric light

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

The telephone

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?

An alderman or ward boss

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

The South

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

Women's low wages

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

Social Work

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

They sought to improve public health

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

The resources and political voice they needed to improve their life

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

Chicago

What characterizes urban political reform efforts in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

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

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

Frances Perkins

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

Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments

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

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

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

Steam Power

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

More discrimination than even the most downtrodden European immigrants

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

It contributed to launching a national birth control movement

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

Urban

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

Yellow Journalism

In the late nineteenth century, George Washington Plunkitt was

The Tammany ward boss who courted all ethnic groups to win their support

Florence Kelley became a famous advocate for

female and child laborers

Who was Joseph Pulitzer and what made him significant?

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

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

Their frequent accidents

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

The economic depression

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

The U.S. Senate

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

Challenging traditional courtship rules

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

Race riots foreshadowed a worsening of urban racial tensions

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

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

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?

Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

Trolley car

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

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

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

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

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

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