The American Journey, Illinois Edition

Chapter 20: Toward an Urban America

Toward an Urban America

1.
The “new” immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1880s were from all but which of the following countries?
A)Greece
B)Russia
C)Great Britain
D)Hungary
2.
Immigrants arriving at San Francisco were checked through __________.
A)Angel Island
B)Alcatraz Island
C)Ellis Island
D)Chincoteague Island
3.
Americans who opposed immigration were part of the __________.
A)Chatauqua Movement
B)Exclusion Movement
C)America for Americans Movement
D)Nativist Movement
4.
An apartment building in a poor, run-down urban neighborhood was called a __________.
A)tenement
B)condominium
C)slum
D)shelter
5.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published a novel in 1893 called __________. The title became associated with America of the late 1800s.
A)The Luck of Roaring Camp
B)The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
C)The Prince and the Pauper
D)The Gilded Age
6.
Jane Addams founded __________.
A)Vassar College
B)Hull House
C)the Woolworth Company
D)the YWCA
7.
The first skyscraper was designed by __________.
A)Elisha Otis
B)Jacob Riis
C)Frederick Olmsted
D)William LeBaron Jenney
8.
States used funds made available through the Morrill Act to __________.
A)open public parks
B)build public libraries
C)start land-grant colleges
D)improve high school education programs
9.
William Randolph Heart’s newspapers practiced __________ journalism.
A)yellow
B)investigative
C)narrative
D)basic
10.
An entirely new form of music that developed in New Orleans in the late 1800s was __________.
A)country
B)hip-hop
C)gospel
D)jazz
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