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Nation of Nations A Concise Narrative of the American Republic Book Cover Image
Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e
James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin
The Rise of an Urban Order (1870-1900)

Multiple Choice



1

George Washington Plunkitt worked feverishly to:
A)make himself wealthy through the political machine.
B)promote membership in craft unions.
C)provide free immunization against contagious diseases.
D)convince parents to send their children to public schools.
2

"New immigrants" who surged into America from the 1880s on were primarily:
A)from Latin America and the Caribbean.
B)northern Europeans.
C)southern and eastern Europeans.
D)Asians
3

"Birds of passage" referred to immigrants who:
A)came to make money in the U.S., then returned home.
B)paid almost nothing for their ocean crossing, living on the deck of the ship during the voyage.
C)went from city to city looking for relatives or friends.
D)failed the medical inspection when they tried to enter the United States.
4

Dumbbell tenements:
A)vastly improved the conditions in immigrant ghettoes.
B)were intended to improve ventilation, but created new dangers.
C)had no windows and were often the cheapest housing in the poorest section of a city.
D)provided an indoor toilet in each family's apartment.
5

Most public welfare in the larger cities in the late 1800s was provided unofficially by the:
A)wealthiest families through a voluntary tax.
B)labor unions.
C)public schools.
D)political machines
6

In 1882, Congress passed an exclusion act to ban the entry of laborers from:
A)Ireland.
B)Italy.
C)Mexico.
D)China.
7

Settlement houses were:
A)early community centers set up to help the urban poor.
B)the neighborhood headquarters of big city bosses.
C)the equivalent of a small-claims court for the urban poor.
D)the cheap housing occupied by factory and mill workers.
8

Frances Willard's WCTU symbolized how middle-class women sought to reform society principally by:
A)pushing for the right to vote.
B)assisting recent immigrants in assimilating to America.
C)crusading against alcohol.
D)becoming teachers and nurses.
9

Public school teachers in the late nineteenth century tended to emphasize:
A)creative thinking.
B)memorization.
C)Latin, Greek, philosophy, and economics.
D)vigorous class discussion of the social problems of the day.
10

In the late nineteenth century:
A)a growing number of women attended college.
B)college attendance by women remained unchanged.
C)only a handful of colleges in the country accepted women students.
D)more women than men were enrolled in college.
11

In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, amusement parks:
A)reinforced Victorian values.
B)encouraged abandon, fantasy, and gaiety.
C)became notoriously dangerous and were closed down.
D)were out of reach for all but the wealthiest Americans.








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