Homework Sheet
Wednesday, February 12
Read pages 501-507 (484-491) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery
- The advantages and disadvantages of the new industrial system for workers.
- The changing nature of employment for women who worked outside the home.
- Explain how and why women displaced men in specific occupations in the late 19th century.
- Factors leading to the discontent of farmers.
- Understand how workers who made practically the same wage often had far different living
standards.
- The impact of social changes on education and the impact of education on social mobility.
Thursday, February 13
Read pages 507-513 (491-500) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
- What was new about the “new” immigrants?
- Differentiate between “Old” and “New” immigration. Mention specific countries form which
immigrants came and discuss their problems of assimilation into American culture.
- The origins of nativism and the movement for immigration restriction.
- The problems associated with the growth of large urban centers.
Friday, February 14
Read pages 513-523 (500-508) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
- How technological changes improved urban life.
- Discuss American interest in sports and recreation in the late 19th century, with references to team
sports and activities such as tennis, golf, or bicycling.
- The Social Gospel.
- Evaluate the response of Protestant and Catholic churches to challenges of the industrial society.
- The settlement house movement.
- Describe urban ghetto life in the late 1800s
Monday, February 24
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Take Home Test on Chapter 19
American Society in the Industrial Age
Directions: Read pages 501-523; 530-538. Inform the reader of several of the most important facts about
each item. If it is an event, describe what happened and how it came out; if it is a person, detail the most
important facts that this person should be remembered for. This should take 3 sentences. After
finishing the sentence note both the source and note page number(s).
Gilded Age Society
- New Immigrants
- Birds of Passage
- Nativism
- Urbanization
Awakening Reform
- Criticism of the Times
o Eugene Debs
o Thorstein Veblen
o Henry George’s Progress and Poverty
o Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward
Settlement House Movement
- Jane Addams
o Hull House
- Social Gospel
Reform Movements
- Religion
o Salvation Army
o Christian Science
- Temperance
o WCTU
o Anti-Saloon League
- Education
- Susan B. Anthony
o Suffrage Movement
Culture
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Realism and Naturalism in Literature
- Painting
o Ashcan School
- Popular Culture
o Sports
o Circus
- Mark Twain
- Jacob Riis
o “How the Other Half Lives”
Name: ____________________________________
American Society in the Industrial Age
Date: _______________
Directions: Each of these questions or incomplete statements below is followed by
five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case.
1.
All of the following statements concerning American cities after the Civil War
are correct EXCEPT?
A.
The growth of U.S. cities was dependent upon the revolution then
occurring in agriculture and the production of food.
B.
By 1890 more than a dozen American cities could boast a population of one
million or more.
C.
Development of the city depended upon development of mass transportation.
D.
Cities attracted rural residents with the promise of factory jobs and a
more exciting life style.
E.
The size of the American urban population was increasing more rapidly
than the general national population by U.S. Census figures, 1800-1890
2.
Characteristics of the American city included all of the following EXCEPT?
A.
Department stores providing shopping for middle class and jobs for
working class.
B.
Electric trolleys for mass transportation.
C.
Industrial centers providing factory jobs.
D.
New technology like skyscrapers, electricity, telephones, 33 indoor
plumbing.
E.
Democratic diversity with neighborhoods ethnically, racially, and
economically mixed.
3.
All of the following were serious social problems that plagued cities after the
Civil War EXCEPT?
A.
Crime.
B.
Waste disposal.
C.
Cultural wasteland.
D.
Disease.
E.
Poverty.
4.
Which of the following was more responsible for population increase in American
cities after the Civil War than the other causes?
A.
Natural birthrate of urban residents.
B.
Influx of former slaves looking for industrial jobs.
C.
Domestic migration from rural areas.
D.
Civil War veterans settling in urban areas.
E.
Southerners migration away from Reconstruction terror.
5.
The basic living quarters occupied by most families residing in American cities
between 1865-1919 is best identified by which of the following?
A.
Single family dwelling.
B.
Suburban
C.
Dumbbell Tenement
D.
Skyscraper apartment developments
E.
Semi-rural city farms.
6.
The dividing point for immigration is generally taken as 1880. Those who came
before 1800 are called the Old Immigration while those who followed that date
are called the New Immigration. Which of the following countries supplied
immigration who were classified as part of the Old Immigration?
A.
Germany
B.
Poland
C.
Russia
D.
Italy
E.
Greece
7.
The dividing point for immigration is generally taken as 1880. Those who came
before 1800 are called the Old Immigration while those who followed that date
are called the New Immigration. Which of the following countries supplied
immigration who were classified as part of the New Immigration?
A.
Britain
B.
Norway
C.
Denmark
D.
Sweden
E.
Italy
8.
The people of the New Immigration (post 1880s) came generally from which of the
following regions?
A.
Western Europe
B.
Northern Europe
C.
Africa
D.
Asia
E.
Eastern Europe
9.
The immigrants of the New Immigration (Post-1880s) were seen as undesirable for
all of the following reasons EXCEPT?
A.
Worshipped in Orthodox Catholic churches or Jewish synagogues
B.
Came with democratic ideas that pushed a liberal agenda that frightened
Republican conservatives.
C.
Were usually illiterate.
D.
Impoverished, they clustered in cities in factory jobs rather than
seeking farms in the interior of the nation.
E.
Came from cultures so different that many Americans feared they would not
assimilate easily.
10.
Many immigrants were forced from their ancient homes by war, persecution, and
economic disasters. In the 1880s Jewish immigrants were particularly impacted
by persecution, especially under the authority of which of the following
nations?
A.
Britain
B.
France
C.
Germany
D.
Russia
E.
Italy
11.
Many immigrants did not intend to remain in the United States. After building a
"nest egg" of cash to purchase a farm or small business back in their native
land, they would return home. These immigrants were called "Birds of Passage"
and represented what percentage of the total number of immigrants?
A.
Virtual none.
B.
More than half of all immigrants.
C.
About twenty-five percent.
D.
Less than half, but more than a third.
E.
Eighty percent.
12.
Big city political machines like New York City's Tammany Hall welcomed the
immigrants as a source of voting power. They earned the support of immigrants
by providing important social services which city governments would not or
could not supply. Among those services were all of the following EXCEPT?
A.
Housing for new arrivals.
B.
Jobs on city payroll for men in the family.
C.
Social services through the "settlement house" system.
D.
Gifts of food or clothing for the needy or at holidays.
E.
Help locate schools or parks in immigrant neighborhoods.
13.
One important group of concerned reformers who focused on the problems of the
urban poor was led by Washington Gladden of the Congregationalist church in
Columbus, Ohio. 55¡He preached that Christianity demanded that the middle class
help the poor. This movement was called:
A.
Social Darwinism
C.
Populism
E.
Pragmatism
B.
Nativism
D.
Social Gospel
14.
Those who wanted to halt immigration and protect the nation from the
"pollution" that immigrants might bring were part of which of the following
groups?
A.
Social Darwinism
C.
Populism
E.
Pragmatism
B.
Nativism
D.
Social Gospel
15.
Which of the following was an organization of the post Civil War period that
was dedicated to stopping the influx of immigration?
A.
Hull House
B.
American Protective Association
C.
National Consumer League
D.
Niagara Movement
E.
Peoples' Party or Populists
16.
Closely associated with several reform movements, but especially Chicago's Hull
House in poor immigrant neighborhoods was which of these individuals?
A.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
D.
Emily Dickson
B.
John P. Morgan
E.
Washington Gladden
C.
Jane Addams
17.
In 1882 among the immigration restrictions which the U.S. began to adopt was a
law that completely banned the arrival of an entire group of people. That group
was:
A.
Jews
C.
Moslems
E.
Chinese
B.
Russians
D.
Japanese
18.
Which of the following African American leaders was willing to ignore social
equality (accepting segregation) if he could be guaranteed that his people
would have economic advancement?
A.
Mary Eddy Baker.
B.
Robert G. Ingersoll.
C.
Booker T. Washington.
D.
W.E.B. Du Bois.
E.
Dwight Lyman Moody.
19.
The Morrill Act of 1862 and the Hatch Act of 1887 impacted which of the
following areas?
A.
Railroad regulation
C.
Labor unions
E.
Foreign policy
B.
Higher education
D.
Urban poor
20.
Who was the individual credited with designing the first skyscrapers in city
environments?
A.
P.T. Barnum
C.
Louis Sullivan
E.
James Whistler
B.
Henry Richardson
D.
John Singer Sargent