Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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About
70 percent of the new immigrants came from A. | southern or eastern Europe. | C. | Asia. | B. | northern or
western Europe. | D. | Africa. | | | | |
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Many
new immigrants came to the United States A. | to escape prosecution for crimes they
committed. | B. | to invest in the new booming economy. | C. | because they
believed social programs would provide them with needed medical care and educational
opportunities. | D. | to escape poverty and religious and political
persecution. | | |
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3.
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The
immigration station at Ellis Island A. | received immigrants who were mainly from
Asia. | B. | automatically accepted almost everyone who applied for
admission to the United States. | C. | gave all newcomers a physical exam and turned away those with
serious illnesses. | D. | turned away the majority of people hoping to enter the United
States. | | |
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4.
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The
greatest number of immigrants entered the United States in A. | 1860. | C. | 1880. | B. | 1870. | D. | 1900. | | | | |
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Between 1865 and 1900, the percentage of Americans living in cities A. | doubled. | C. | decreased by 50
percent. | B. | tripled. | D. | remained about the same. | | | | |
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Mass
transit A. | made it
practical to build skyscrapers. | B. | allowed urban areas to expand far from the central business
district. | C. | resulted in a rapid loss of population in the core of
cities. | D. | had little effect on where workers lived because few could
afford to regularly travel by mass transit. | | |
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The
first electric trolley, or streetcar, began service in A. | Richmond,
Virginia. | C. | Cleveland,
Ohio. | B. | St. Paul, Minnesota. | D. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | | | | |
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During the late 1800s, the middle class A. | deserted the
city. | B. | grew rapidly as a result of the growth of new
industries. | C. | shrank in numbers while the upper and lower classes expanded
sharply. | D. | gave large sums of money to philanthropic
organizations. | | |
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During the late 1800s, the working poor A. | received
increasingly good wages. | B. | lived principally in the suburbs where rent was
lower. | C. | benefited from a building boom that resulted in an excess of
housing and lower costs for rent. | D. | lived in crowded tenements close to the factories, ports, and
stockyards where they worked. | | |
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During the last half of the 1800s, educational reform A. | made large
strides toward racially integrating all public schools. | B. | was limited by
small increases in funding for education. | C. | included instruction in behavior, civic loyalty, and American
cultural values. | D. | reached only the children of the middle and upper
classes. | | |
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Between 1865 and 1910, the numbers of newspapers in the United States A. | increased
slowly. | C. | tripled. | B. | doubled. | D. | increased by more than five times. | | | | |
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12.
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Edith
Wharton was a A. | reporter for the
New York World. | B. | cartoonist who created “the Yellow
Kid.” | C. | novelist who wrote The House of
Mirth. | D. | musician who wrote “The Maple Leaf
Rag.” | | |
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The
first professional baseball team, which began playing ball in 1869, was the A. | Cincinnati Red
Stockings. | C. | Brooklyn
Dodgers. | B. | St. Louis Cardinals. | D. | Boston Red Sox. | | | | |
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14.
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James
Naismith invented the game of A. | baseball. | C. | football. | B. | basketball. | D. | croquet. | | | | |
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Many
Americans attended the theater and enjoyed melodramatic performances in which A. | the villains
were poor immigrants and the heroes were generous nouveau riche. | B. | the villains
were immigrants and the heroes were nativists. | C. | the villains
were nativists and the heroes were Americanized immigrants. | D. | the villains
were wealthy aristocrats and the heroes were working-class people. | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | new
immigrants | K. | settlement
houses | B. | steerage | L. | Elisha Otis | C. | benevolent
societies | M. | Jane
Addams | D. | Scott Joplin | N. | compulsory education laws | E. | Chinese
Exclusion Act | O. | City Beautiful
movement | F. | Immigration Restriction League | P. | ragtime | G. | Denis
Kearney | Q. | John
Dewey | H. | skyscrapers | R. | Walter Camp | I. | mass
transit | S. | James
Naismith | J. | nouveau riche | | | | |
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a
second wave of immigrants to the United States that arrived between 1891 and 1910
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17.
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developed the mechanized elevator to transport people between floors in multistoried
buildings
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18.
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state
laws that required parents to send their children to school
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19.
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a
French term meaning “newly rich”
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20.
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the
poorest accommodations on a steamship
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21.
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a
woman who was at the forefront of the settlement-house movement
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community service centers that were established in poor neighborhoods to provide
educational opportunities, training, and cultural events for neighborhood residents
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an
educational reformer who emphasized “learning by doing”
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24.
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the
leader of the Workingmen’s Party of California who strongly objected to Chinese immigration to
the United States
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a
movement that stressed the need to include parks and attractive boulevards in the design of
cities
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large, multistory buildings
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27.
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public transportation, such as electric commuter trains, subways, and trolley
cars
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28.
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religious and nonreligious aid organizations created to aid immigrants in cases of
sickness, unemployment, and death
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an
organization that sought to limit immigration by imposing a literacy test on all
immigrants
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30.
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the
King of Ragtime
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