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Chapter 19 | The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
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4. Why did African Americans consider moving from the rural South to the urban North following the Civil War?
8. Which of the following was a disadvantage of machine politics?
A. Immigrants did not have a voice.
B. Taxpayers ultimately paid higher city taxes
due to graft.
C. Only wealthy parts of the city received
timely responses.
D. Citizens who voiced complaints were at
risk for their safety.
9. In what way did education play a crucial role in the emergence of the middle class?
10. Which of the following statements accurately represents Thorstein Veblen’s argument in The Theory of the Leisure Class?
A. All citizens of an industrial society would rise or fall based on their own innate merits.
B. The tenets of naturalism were the only laws
through which society should be governed.
C. The middle class was overly focused on its
own comfort and consumption.
D. Land and natural resources should belong
equally to all citizens.
11. Which of the following was not an element of realism?
A. social Darwinism B. instrumentalism C. naturalism
D. pragmatism
12. In what ways did writers, photographers, and visual artists begin to embrace more realistic subjects in their work? How were these responses to the advent of the industrial age and the rise of cities?
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A. to be able to buy land
B. to avoid slavery
C. to find wage-earning work
D. to further their education
Which of the following is true of late nineteenth-century southern and eastern European immigrants, as opposed to their western and northern European predecessors?
A. Southern and eastern European immigrants tended to be wealthier.
B. Southern and eastern European immigrants were, on the whole, more skilled and able to find better paying employment.
C. Many southern and eastern European immigrants acquired land in the West, while western and northern European immigrants tended to remain in urban centers.
D. Ellis Island was the first destination for most southern and eastern Europeans.
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7. Which of the following was a popular pastime for working-class urban dwellers?
A. football games
B. opera
C. museums
D. amusement parks
Critical Thinking Questions
What made recent European immigrants the ready targets of more established city dwellers? What was the result of this discrimination?
13. What triumphs did the late nineteenth century witness in the realms of industrial growth, urbanization, and technological innovation? What challenges did these developments pose for urban dwellers, workers, and recent immigrants? How did city officials and everyday citizens respond to these challenges?
14. What were the effects of urbanization on the working, middle, and elite classes of American society? Conversely, how did the different social classes and their activities change the scope, character, and use of urban spaces?