Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Ragtime

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Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Thorstein Veblen

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Question 3

Who were the "new immigrants" who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920?

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The "new immigrants" who arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1920 were predominantly from southern and eastern Europe, including countries such as Italy, Greece, Russia, and Poland. These immigrants were culturally and linguistically different from previous waves of immigrants, which led to tensions and discrimination toward them.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Florence Kelley

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Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Jane Addams and Hull House, Settlement House Movement

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Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Mark Twain

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Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Vaudeville, blackface

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Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Saloons

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Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright

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Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser

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Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
John L. Sullivan

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Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Professional Sports

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Question 13

In her work against drinking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances Willard

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Frances Willard headed the Women's Christian Temperance Union which was a organization that pursued various reform issues, including drinking. She was a prominent figure in the temperance movement and advocated for the restriction or prohibition of alcohol.

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Genteel tradition

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Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Coney Island

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Question 16

Why did young farm women lead the exodus from rural areas to cities?

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Mechanization of farming made it increasingly male work, and young farm women could not find employment on the farm or support themselves independently, leading them to move to the cities in search of work.

Question 17

In 1890, approximately what portion of the population of greater New York had been born abroad or were children of foreign parents?

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Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
William Torrey Harris, Joseph Mayer Rice

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Question 19

What is the difference between tenements and ghettos?

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Tenements were often apartment buildings where immigrants lived in crowded conditions, while ghettos were neighborhoods where people of a certain racial or ethnic group were concentrated due to social pressure or legal restrictions. While there was often overlap between the two, the primary distinction is that tenements were the physical housing structures while ghettos were the neighborhoods where those structures were located. Choice B correctly captures this distinction.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union

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Quiz 19: Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ragtime

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Thorstein Veblen

Who were the "new immigrants" who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Florence Kelley

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Jane Addams and Hull House, Settlement House Movement

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Mark Twain

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Vaudeville, blackface

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Saloons

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John L. Sullivan

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Professional Sports

In her work against drinking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Frances Willard

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Genteel tradition

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Coney Island

Why did young farm women lead the exodus from rural areas to cities?

In 1890, approximately what portion of the population of greater New York had been born abroad or were children of foreign parents?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. William Torrey Harris, Joseph Mayer Rice

What is the difference between tenements and ghettos?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union