American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 18: THE AGE OF THE CITY

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This picture shows an Italian immigrant family arriving to America in 1905, a time that witnessed an explosion in immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. What percentage of immigrants had been Italian between 1860 and 1900?
A)6%
B)8%
C)11%
D)15%
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This photo was taken at the 1916 Army-Navy football game, a game that has since become a tradition in college football. Which two teams played in America's first intercollegiate football game?
A)Princeton and Rutgers
B)Army and Navy
C)Harvard and Yale
D)Notre Dame and Penn State
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Many immigrants' first experience of America occurred here, at Ellis Island. Soon thereafter, many immigrants moved to one of America's major cities. What percentage of New York City's population in 1890 was immigrant-born?
A)27%
B)45%
C)66%
D)80%
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Chinese immigrants are forced to undergo an eye exam. In what year were Chinese immigrants excluded altogether?
A)1882
B)1886
C)1893
D)1903
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Here, Uncle Sam is threatened by a rising tide of immigrants. Which of the following persons would most agree with the sentiments of this cartoon?
A)Simon Patten
B)Henry Bowers
C)Marshall Field
D)Theodore Dreiser
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Immigrants work in a crowded tenement sweat shop. In Boston, these tenements were more often referred to as:
A)skyscrapers
B)triple-deckers
C)undesirables
D)chain Stores
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This picture of New York City's Mulberry Street in 1900 is a good illustration of
A)vaudeville.
B)the Ashcan School.
C)"immigrant ghettoes."
D)the Great White City.
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These neighborhood stores would most likely be threatened by which of the following?
A)skyscrapers
B)Coney Island
C)Tammany Hall
D)Marshall Field
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This photo of "Street Arabs" was taken by the Danish-born author of How the Other Half Lives. His name is
A)Jacob Riis.
B)Simon Patten.
C)Lester Frank Ward.
D)John A. Roebling.
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This picture of children playing near a festering horse carcass would probably most concern the
A)National Consumer's League.
B)Cincinnati Red Stockings.
C)Public Health Service.
D)American Protective Association.
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If this cartoon is depicting members of Tammany Hall, then one of the fellows in the center is most likely
A)William Dean Howells.
B)William Tweed.
C)William Graham Sumner.
D)William James.
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This 1900 ad for a "wonderful animated moving picture exhibition" reflects interest in the recent invention of
A)Alexander Graham Bell.
B)Henry Ford.
C)D.W. Griffith.
D)Thomas Edison.
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The students in this picture are Native American. Where, then, was this photo likely taken?
A)San Francisco, California
B)Carlisle, Pennsylvania
C)Abilene, Kansas
D)Tuskegee, Alabama
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