True or False Chapter 18 Self-Quiz 2

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. By 1910, the American West contained 70 percent of the nation's urban population.

. More immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1910 than in the previous 250 years.

. The relative ease of transatlantic crossings via steamship meant that more and more immigrants thought of their sojourn in the United States as temporary.

. The language of Yiddish is best described as a German dialect with Hebrew words.

. American cities of the Gilded Age were undisciplined, filthy, and full of waste, but they were rarely diverse.

. It was middle-class men first and foremost who vaunted a masculinity that stressed physical prowess and vigorous activity during the Gilded Age.

. Settlement houses were meant to form solidarity across ethnic differences on the grounds of a shared working-class experience.

. At the heart of national political debates in the 1880s and 1890s was the issue of racial equality.

. Despite fervent party loyalties and effective party organizations, voter turnout during the Gilded Age was meager.

. The first truly modern presidential campaign in American history was run by Democrat and Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

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