True or False Chapter 18 Self-Quiz 1

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. Urbanization was less a defining feature of industrializing nations as a universal development across the globe in the late 19th century.

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. Railroads fueled the growth of large and smaller cities in Gilded Age America.

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. The dense immigrant neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan and Chicago during the Gilded Age became known as "walking cities."

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. Despite the efforts of friends and family already in the United States, most immigrants lacked well-laid plans when they embarked for the United States.

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. Canada first restricted Chinese immigration in 1885.

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. Immigrants who returned to their home country tended to be far less deferential to authority and their social superiors.

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Because of the pressures and tensions faced by immigrants, the United States rarely proved to be a "promised land"€ for them.

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. The railroad and the telegraph were essential technologies for the growth of baseball as the nation's favorite pastime.

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. Protestant reformers in Gilded Age America often associated the consumption of liquor with Roman Catholicism.

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. Because Congress remained most evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans in Gilded Age America, neither party wanted to risk the loyalty of their constituencies with significant reforms.

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