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| 13018782531 | The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was | the availability of industrial jobs | 0 | |
| 13018792601 | One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was | the rise of large department stores | 1 | |
| 13018800156 | The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880 | were culturally different from previous immigrants | 2 | |
| 13018806076 | Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape | the poverty and backwardness of southern Italy | 3 | |
| 13018815370 | A "bird of passage" was an immigrant who | came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe | 4 | |
| 13018819128 | Most New Immigrants | tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America | 5 | |
| 13018835405 | The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by | creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and "accommodationists" who supported it | 6 | |
| 13018854446 | Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all of the following activities EXCEPT | instruction in socialism | 7 | |
| 13018875738 | The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was | the big city | 8 | |
| 13018893523 | In the 1890s, positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for | the native born | 9 | |
| 13018900602 | Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following EXCEPT | opposed to factory labor | 10 | |
| 13087104085 | The American Protective Association supported | immigration restrictions | 11 | |
| 13087112246 | The religious denomination that responded most favorably to the New Immigration were | Roman Catholics | 12 | |
| 13087121695 | The new, research-oriented modem American university tended to | de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization. | 13 | |
| 13087142734 | The "pragmatists" were a school of American philosophers who emphasized | that ideas were largely worthless and only practical experience should be pursued. | 14 | |
| 13087149148 | Americans offered growing support for a free public education system because | they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens. | 15 | |
| 13087157387 | Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was | economic independence | 16 | |
| 13087164115 | The post-civil War era witnessed | an increase in compulsory school-attendance laws | 17 | |
| 13087192896 | What was the view of W. E. B. Du Bois? | That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites | 18 | |
| 13087200579 | The Morrill Act of 1862 | granted public lands to states to support higher education. | 19 | |
| 13087214163 | Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois | demanded complete equality for African Americans | 20 | |
| 13087227930 | The University of California, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University were among the | major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era. | 21 | |
| 13087259692 | The public library movement across America was greatly aided by | the generous financial support from Andrew Carnegie | 22 | |
| 13087268463 | American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by | printing sensationalist stories of sex and scandal | 23 | |
| 13087277958 | Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in | landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values | 24 | |
| 13087288230 | General Lewis Wallace's book Ben Hur defended | Christianity against Darwinism | 25 | |
| 13087312200 | Match each of these late nineteenth century writers with the theme of his work A. Lewis Wallace B. Horatio Alger C. Henry James D. William Dean Howells 1. success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work 2. anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures 3. contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism 4. psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women. | A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 | 26 | |
| 13087363937 | American novelists' turn from romanticism & transcendentalism to rugged social realism reflected | materialism (consumerism) & conflicts of new industrial society | 27 | |
| 13087380521 | Which of the following post-Civil War writers did NOT reflect the increased attention to social problems by those from less affluent backgrounds? | Henry Adams | 28 | |
| 13087389218 | In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in | - soaring divorce rates - the spreading practice of birth control - increasingly frank discussion of sexual topics - more women working outside the home | 29 | |
| 13087418863 | In the course of the late nineteenth century family size | gradually decreased | 30 | |
| 13087424225 | By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage argued that | the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world | 31 | |
| 13087435038 | One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was | the stresses of urban life | 32 | |
| 13087447375 | The National American Woman Suffrage Association limited its membership to | whites | 33 | |
| 13087450461 | The term Richardsonian in the late nineteenth century pertained to | architecture | 34 | |
| 13087455589 | During industrialization, Americans increasingly shared | a common and standardized popular culture | 35 | |
| 13087472776 | Sports developed after the Civil War | - Basketball - Bicycling (huge craze once "safety bicycle" was invented - Wright Brothers owned a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio) - Croquet - College Football (very dangerous compared to today b/c of rules not yet applied, lack of protection) | 36 |
