50 questions
SC case involving AAaccess to first class seats on railroad cars
Wabash v. Illinois
Montana Railway Co v. Warren
Plessy v. Ferguson
Allen v. Hanks
Which factor resulted in the growth of the YMCA
people needed an outlet for entertainment
the training of professional athletes
epidemic of obesity across U.S.
The YMCA prompted "muscular Christianity" for white -collar workers
Family life in the 1800s
family size declined because middle class children were not needed for work
Birthrate remained stable due to values held by immigrant families
Family size increased due to urban prosperity allowed parents to support more children comfortably
farm daughters did male work as young male farmers moved to big cities
Which was true of middle class families in the 19th century?
legal abortion and birth control aided in the move toward smaller families
remaining unmarried at 20 was not common and stigmatized
smaller families allowed parents to focus their resources to increase their social mobility
Husbands and wives both worked in the home, thereby strengthening family ties.
The Comstock Act
legalized the use of condoms
prohibited the circulation of information about sex and birth control
criminalized activity that resulted in the creation of pornographic material
reversed a law that prohibited obscene materials from U.S. mail
Which is a summary of Booker T. Washington's approach to racial change in the U.S.?
Washington advocated education to end poverty and segregation
promoted industrial education for blacks as a strategy to lesson white prejudice
promoted black boarding schools to assimilate students into white culture
advocated political organization to challenge structures and attitudes of racism
Between 1880-1920, higher education for women was
banned in most of the South
unheard of in most parts the country
almost universal among the middle class
mostly at single sex institutions in the Northeast and South
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
confined itself exclusively to work on the liquor question
It supported woman suffrage as a tool that could challenge the liquor interest
The group used temperance as a front for its real feminist agenda and platform
Let by Susan B. Anthony, the group protested outside saloons with babies in arm
The WCTU was the first national movement to
identify and fight against domestic violence
demand a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol
be led by a woman
call for woman suffrage
Which region of the U.S. responded to woman's suffrage by 1900?
Northeast
Lower South
Midwest
West
Why was the United Daughters of the Confederacy founded in 1894?
to fight for the liberties of all people in the U.S. regardless of race or gender
To study the historical factors that lead to the Civil War in the South
To promote the "Lost Cause" of the South in the Civil War
To change the beliefs and customs of the South
Social Darwinists believed that
businesses should be regulated
"inferior" people should be discouraged from reproducing
millionaires were the fittest Americans
government should guide social processes
Which concept followed directly from the philosophy of Social Darwinism?
Modernism
Domesticity
Eugenics Laws
The Social Gospel
In the late 1800s, many native-born, prosperous American Jews embraced
Orthodox Judaism
nativism
Reform Judaism
atheism
Protestant churches taught Social Gospel that encouraged
extending principles of the Gospel of Wealth to religion
warned that society outside the church was contrary to God's plan
urged congregations to focus on each other's personal salvation as "Social Christians."
taught that Christians should fight for social justice and the public welfare.
By 1900 the primary means of urban mass transit in the U.S. was
subway
trolley car
elevated railroad
cable car
This invention transformed urban and suburban communications in the U.S. after 1876?
Elevator
Walkie-talkie
telephone
telegraph
Which made the growth of skyscrapers possible?
the development of steel girders, plate glass, and elevators
Government subsidies to contractors who would build them
Architects competing for the Form Follows Function award
The newly built system of canals that connected cities to sources for building materials
This invention made residents feel safer in the late nineteenth century
Electric light
subway
radio
telegraph
At the turn of the century, AA moving to cities in the North experienced which of the following?
Substantially less racism than did AA in the South
More opportunities to become skilled workers than they had two decades earlier
More discrimination than even the most downtrodden European immigrants
Plentiful job opportunities and access to integrated housing
Tenements in urban areas in the early 1900s...
were government subsidized housing for the poor
were modern and sleek no-frills apartments that housed poor families
were buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments
were light manufacturing factories prevalent in many urban warehouse districts
Which phenomena emerged as an important new influence on urban entertainment in the early twentieth century?
Middle class reformers priorities
black music
opera houses
Saloons
The rise of nickelodeons, amusement parks, dance halls, vaudeville, and other "cheap amusements" in the late nineteenth-century cities had which of the following effects?
Challenging traditional courtship rituals
Reinforcing Victorian values
Increasing tax revenues so the government could build more libraries and parks
Undermining businesses efforts to instill workplace discipline
What made young women vulnerable in the new system of dating and "treating" that emerged in the early twentieth-century cities?
Their low marriage prospects
Sexualized dancing and music
Women's low wages
A high percentage of bachelors
What philanthropist promised to build a library in any city that was prepared to maintain it?
J.P Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
George W. Vanderbilt
Who was Joseph Pulitzer and why was he significant?
An investigative reporter who exposed the unhealthy conditions of the meatpacking industry
A circus showman who claimed that " He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species"
The artist whose comic strip, "The Yellow Kid" gave its name to yellow journalism
A St. Louis newspaper publisher who built his sales base with sensational investigations
Sensationalized style of reporting used by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer is known as
Scandal sheet copy
Yellow journalism
Paparazzi coverage
Human interest writing
What did the book The Shame of Cities refer to?
Racial violence in urban slums
Conspicuous consumption among the rich
Urban political corruption
Prostitution in big cities
Political machines in the late nineteenth century
mediated between municipal governments and state and federal governments
Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble
Political machines were an obstacle to the creation of urban infrastructure
They protected American city-dwellers from powerful economic interests
"honest graft"
paying taxes on briberies
Bribing politicians for good purposes
Confessing past bribes
Profiting from insider status
Why did Galveston, Texas adopt a commission system in 1900, that later became a nationwide model for efficient government?
To end the rampant homelessness and hunger
To encourage industrial development in the city
To rebuild after a hurricane killed roughly 6000 people
To curb the influence of corporate interests in the government
Cities wanted state of the art sewage and drainage systems in the late 1800s due to
cities smelled so bad they were nearly uninhabitable
The government offered tax incentives
They sought to improve public health
Urban land became too valuable to use for pivies
The City Beautiful Movement
cleaned up rivers
cleaned up air pollution
built more and better urban park spaces
preservation of green space
What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide the working class people served through settlement houses?
The resources and political voice they needed to improve their lives
Lessons on American history to help recent immigrants assimilate
A stronger sense of "civic enterprise and moral conviction"
Art classes and other cultural programs to expand their minds
Settlement houses led to what type of new occupational field
Midwifery
Social Work
Early Childhood Education
Political bureaucrat
Margaret Sanger's newspaper column "What Every Girl Should Know" was significant
educated girls and woman about the dangers of prostiution
It contributed to launching a national birth control movment
Sanger linked the practice of "treating" with sexually transmitted diseases
It publicized the notion that women as well as men could attend college
What spurred the U.S. Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?
a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, TN, that killed 12 percent of its people
The publication of Leona Prall Groetzinger's expose titled " The City's Perils"
High infant mortality rates that resulted in the widespread problem of adulterated milk
A public uproar caused by Upton Sinclair's realist novel The Jungle
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 led to which of the following outcomes?
A final break between progressive reformers and New York City's Tammany Hall political machine
The NY State Factory Commission to blame worker negligence for producing unsafe working conditions
New York State's passage of the most advanced labor code in the country at that time
The jailing of the company's owner for arson after seeking the collect on his insurance
The Pendleton Act of 1883
created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination
provided temporary benefits for families left without their breadwinner
gave financial assistance to elderly Americans living in poverty
created pensions for the families of disabled workers
Which was the first federal law to regulate trusts?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Populists called for what in their Omaha Platform?
Women's suffrage
public ownership of factories
a federal income tax
a tighter monetary policy
What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he states "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in his famous 1896 speech?
The U.S. should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry
The upper classes had become wealthy by the suffering of the working class
Conditions in the western gold mines had become too dangerous for workers
The upper class should pay income taxes to support relief programs for the poor
Teddy Roosevelt was a conservationist who tried to balance commercial and public interests. True or False?
True
False
Which of the following issues did most middle-class grassroots progressives ignore in the early 1900s?
Cleaning up governemnt
fighting for civil and political rights of blacks and new immigrants
promoting the welfare of working class women and children
Protecting public health and safety and cracking down on the vice industry
The SC's decision in 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon upheld a law
forcing employers to provide day care for workers' children
limiting the workday for women to ten hours
prohibiting child labor
establishing a minimum wage law for women
Between 1910 and 1917, all the industrial states enacted laws that
banned child labor in factories
gave full voting rights to women
provided insurance for on the job accidents
limited foreign immigration
Organized in 1905, the Niagara Movement embraced
environmental protection, including clean water
a ten-hour workday for public utilities workers
equal opportunity for African Americans
federal payments to impoverished women and children
Mary White Ovington and W.E. B. Du Bois were both founders of the
YMCA
NAACP
New York Consumers' League
Progressive Party
Which of the following Progressive reforms amended the Sherman Act to prevent trusts from curbing competition?
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Newlands Reclamation Act
Pendleton Act
How much did Mrs. Reneau spend on Cowboys tickets when Tony Romo was injured and she had to watch the backup play Tom Brady?
800
600
100
400