Question 1

Match the term with the definition.
-The first mass organization of America's working class. Founded in 1869, it attempted to bridge the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, ideology, race, and occupation to build a "universal brotherhood" of all workers.

Accepted Answer

The description matches the definition of the Knights of Labor, which aimed to unite all workers regardless of race, gender, or occupation.

Question 2

Match the term with the definition.
-Women hired by businesses in the decades after the Civil War to keep records and conduct correspondence often using equipment such as typewriters. Secretarial work constituted one of the very few areas where middle-class women could use their literacy for wages.

Accepted Answer

The term "typewriters" refers to women hired to do secretarial work using equipment such as typewriters.

Question 3

Match the term with the definition.
-Facility opened in 1892 in New York harbor that processed new immigrants coming into New York City. In the late nineteenth century, some 75 percent of European immigrants to America came through New York.

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island was a facility that processed new immigrants into New York City from 1892 onwards, with 75% of European immigrants coming through here in the late 19th century.

Question 4

Describe workers' responses to the low wages and poor working conditions they experienced in late-nineteenth-century industrial jobs. How did they try to improve their situations, and what demands did they make? How did industrialists and the U.S. government respond?

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

Compare and contrast the work of white and black women in the late nineteenth century, both inside and outside of the home.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Compare and contrast the responses of municipal governments and political bosses to the challenges that grew along with the rise of cities in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. Which of their actions were viewed by middle-class reformers as positive and which as negative? Why?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Compare and contrast the responses of municipal...

Question 7

Match the term with the definition.
-Movement of populations across large distances such as oceans and continents. In the late nineteenth century, large-scale immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe into the United States contributed to the growth of cities and changes in American demographics.

Accepted Answer

"Global migration" refers to the movement of populations across large distances such as oceans and continents. This best fits the given definition.

Question 8

Describe the roles that new immigrants played in the processes of urbanization and industrialization in the United States after 1880. Why were so many old-stock Americans apprehensive about the influx of new immigrants?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Discuss the impact of urbanization and industrialization on patterns of leisure in America during the nineteenth century. How were these changes related to the growing division among classes?

Accepted Answer

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Question 10

Match the term with the definition.
-Nineteenth-century belief that a woman's place was in the home, where she should create a haven for her family. This sentimentalized ideal led to an increase in the hiring of domestic servants and freed middle-class white women to spend time in pursuits outside the home.

Accepted Answer

The Cult of Domesticity is the belief that a woman's place was in the home.

Question 11

Match the term with the definition.
-Financial contributions by multiple members of a household for the survival of the family. From the late nineteenth century into the twentieth, many working-class families depended on the wages of all family members, regardless of gender or age.

Accepted Answer

The term described in the question is "family economy".

Question 12

Match the term with the definition.
-This violent multicity protest began with West Virginia railroad brakemen objecting to sharp wage reductions and quickly spread to include roughly 600,000 workers. Although President Rutherford B. Hayes sent federal troops to successfully disband the workers, union membership surged in the aftermath.

Accepted Answer

The Great Railroad Strike began with West Virginia railroad brakemen protesting wage reductions and grew to include roughly 600,000 workers. Despite President Rutherford B. Hayes sending federal troops to disband the workers, union membership increased after the strike.

Question 13

Match the term with the definition.
-Organization created by Samuel Gompers in 1886 that coordinated the activities of craft unions throughout the United States. It worked to achieve immediate benefits for skilled workers.

Accepted Answer

The organization created by Samuel Gompers in 1886 that coordinated the activities of craft unions throughout the United States and worked to achieve immediate benefits for skilled workers was the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

Question 14

Match the term with the definition.
-May 4, 1886, incident in which both workers and policemen were killed or wounded after a labor demonstration in Chicago turned violent. The incident created a backlash against labor activism.

Accepted Answer

The Haymarket bombing refers to the incident on May 4, 1886, in which a labor demonstration in Chicago turned violent and both workers and policemen were killed or wounded. It created a backlash against labor activism.

Question 15

Match the term with the definition.
-World's fair held in Chicago in 1893 that attracted millions of visitors. The elaborately designed pavilions of the "White City" included exhibits of technological innovation and of cultural exoticism and embodied an urban ideal that contrasted with the realities of Chicago life.

Accepted Answer

The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893 and attracted millions of visitors with exhibits of technological innovation and cultural exoticism.

Question 16

Match the term with the definition.
-Small room used for clothing piecework beginning in the later nineteenth century. As mechanization transformed the garment industry with the introduction of foot-pedaled sewing machines and mechanical cloth-cutting knives, independent tailors were replaced with these workers, hired by contractors to sew pieces into clothing.

Accepted Answer

A sweatshop is a small room used for clothing piecework beginning in the later nineteenth century. As mechanization transformed the garment industry with the introduction of foot-pedaled sewing machines and mechanical cloth-cutting knives, independent tailors were replaced with these workers, hired by contractors to sew pieces into clothing.

Question 17

Match the term with the definition.
-Late-nineteenth-century political organization whereby an often corrupt politician maintains an inordinate level of power through command of a political machine that distributes services to its constituents.

Accepted Answer

Bossism refers to the corrupt political system that dominated urban politics in the late-nineteenth century.

Quiz 19: The City and Its Workers

Match the term with the definition. -The first mass organization of America's working class. Founded in 1869, it attempted to bridge the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, ideology, race, and occupation to build a "universal brotherhood" of all workers.

Match the term with the definition. -Women hired by businesses in the decades after the Civil War to keep records and conduct correspondence often using equipment such as typewriters. Secretarial work constituted one of the very few areas where middle-class women could use their literacy for wages.

Match the term with the definition. -Facility opened in 1892 in New York harbor that processed new immigrants coming into New York City. In the late nineteenth century, some 75 percent of European immigrants to America came through New York.

Describe workers' responses to the low wages and poor working conditions they experienced in late-nineteenth-century industrial jobs. How did they try to improve their situations, and what demands did they make? How did industrialists and the U.S. government respond?

Compare and contrast the work of white and black women in the late nineteenth century, both inside and outside of the home.

Compare and contrast the responses of municipal governments and political bosses to the challenges that grew along with the rise of cities in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. Which of their actions were viewed by middle-class reformers as positive and which as negative? Why?

Describe the roles that new immigrants played in the processes of urbanization and industrialization in the United States after 1880. Why were so many old-stock Americans apprehensive about the influx of new immigrants?

Discuss the impact of urbanization and industrialization on patterns of leisure in America during the nineteenth century. How were these changes related to the growing division among classes?

Match the term with the definition. -Financial contributions by multiple members of a household for the survival of the family. From the late nineteenth century into the twentieth, many working-class families depended on the wages of all family members, regardless of gender or age.

Match the term with the definition. -Organization created by Samuel Gompers in 1886 that coordinated the activities of craft unions throughout the United States. It worked to achieve immediate benefits for skilled workers.

Match the term with the definition. -May 4, 1886, incident in which both workers and policemen were killed or wounded after a labor demonstration in Chicago turned violent. The incident created a backlash against labor activism.

Match the term with the definition. -Late-nineteenth-century political organization whereby an often corrupt politician maintains an inordinate level of power through command of a political machine that distributes services to its constituents.