Deck 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edward Bellamy

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Emma Lazarus

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Gibbons

Answer 3

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anthony Comstock

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mary Baker Eddy

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry George

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis Sullivan

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William James

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Randolph Hearst

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Dwight Lyman Moody

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles W. Eliot

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Washington Carver

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis Agassiz

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Walter Rauschenbusch

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Victoria Woodhull

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Joseph Pulitzer

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Florence Kelley

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Booker T. Washington

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jane Addams

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jack London

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry James

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William F. Cody

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Carrie Nation

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mark Twain

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stephen Crane

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Naismith

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Carrie Chapman Catt

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​John Dewey

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horatio Alger

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Adams

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ida B. Wells

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nativism

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Dean Howells

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Burnham

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Theodore Dreiser

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"form follows function"

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Eakins

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hull House

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Little Poland/Little Italy

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sears/Montgomery Ward

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
settlement house

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Christian Science

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
new morality

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
land-grant colleges

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Protective Association

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
dumbbell tenement

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
natural selection

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Immigration

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
single tax

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
social gospel

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
talented tenth

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
evolutionary process

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
liberal Protestantism

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
literary realism

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pragmatism

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
yellow journalism

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
dime novels

Question 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Chautauqua movement

Question 62

One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was

A) mass-production factories.
B) the Sears catalog.
C) advertising billboards.
D) public transportation systems.
E) large department stores.

Question 63

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was the

A) consecutive years of drought in the Midwest and West in the post-Civil War era.
B) availability of industrial jobs.
C) compact nature of those large communities.
D) advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.
E) lure of cultural excitement.

Question 64

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Comstock Law

Question 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Women's Christian Temperance Union

Question 66

The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was

A) uniquely American.
B) fueled by an agricultural system suffering from poor production levels.
C) attributable to the closing of the frontier.
D) a trend that affected Europe as well.
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 67

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Johns Hopkins University

Question 69

The development of electric trolleys in the late nineteenth century transformed the American city by

A) transforming the American city into a compact and communal "walking city."
B) enabling cities to build upward as well as outward.
C) separating the mass transportation of the working class from the private vehicles of the wealthy.
D) enabling cities to plan streets along regular grid lines.
E) creating distinct districts devoted to residential neighborhoods, commerce, and industry.

Question 70

All of these were factors that increasingly made cities more attractive than farms for young adults except

A) electricity, indoor plumbing and telephones.
B) the advent of skyscrapers and suspension bridges.
C) urban nightlife.
D) industrial jobs.
E) the lower cost of living.

Question 71

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anti-Saloon League

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Red Cross

Question 74

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
City Beautiful movement

Question 75

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Morrill Act

Question 76

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
World's Columbian Exposition

Question 77

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Women and Economics

Question 78

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Progress and Poverty

Question 79

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Howard University

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tuskegee Institute