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Return to American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context 3e Student Resources
Multiple Choice Chapter 18 Self-Quiz 1
Schaller, 3e_MC 18.1
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The Salvation Army implemented a military approach to bring Protestant Christianity to
city dwellers.
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farmers.
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industrial workers.
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American Indians.
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As Gilded Age cities expanded both horizontally and vertically,
they increasingly blended races and ethnicities.
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they increasingly segregated by class, race, and ethnicity.
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they lost the class distinctions of colonial walking cities.
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they could only maintain segregation vertically.
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The city of Chicago was chartered in the year
1684
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1837
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1861
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1777
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Compared to the cities in the North, the cities of the New South remained
dominated by slavery.
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exclusively white living spaces.
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relatively small.
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untouched by industrial technologies.
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Why had Europeans migrated within their continent before they took the next step and boarded steamships to take them across the Atlantic?
They were being prosecuted by Catholics.
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They wanted to escape the expanding Muslim nations.
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They migrated to seasonal harvests and to growing industries.
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They grew tired of the monotony of their village lives back home.
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Which of the following were "nativists" most concerned with?
the citizenship of the president of the United States
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the proper religious celebration of Christmas
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the protection of the natural environment against pollution
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the large number of immigrants arriving in the country
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Which of the following was the most common reason why immigrants had no interest in assimilating into American culture?
They planned to return to their home country.
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They considered Americans racially inferior.
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They were wealthy enough to live separate lives.
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They did not think that American culture was any different from theirs.
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In which part of Gilded Age America did the garment industry concentrate?
New York City
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Chicago
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Los Angeles
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Pennsylvania
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Why did many eastern European Jews reject the ways German Jews practiced their faith?
It struck them as excessively orthodox.
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They thought it too geared to capitalist doctrine.
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They feared the sense of racial supremacy of German Jews.
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They considered their religious practices too liberal and American.
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Why were working class people around the turn of the 20th century able to enjoy new forms of entertainment?
They were finally allowed to participate by the white elite.
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The deregulation of the entertainment industry made new cheap amusements possible.
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Once working-class immigrants learned English, they were able to join in urban amusements.
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With rising wages and shorter hours, they had both time and money for leisure.
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Why did many physicians around the turn of the 20th century object to women engaging in physical activity?
They thought it was too sexually suggestive.
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They feared it would damage their reproductive organs.
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They felt that women had better things to do at home.
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They did not want women to become as strong as men.
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Which of the following was the most significant obstacle to urban missionaries' efforts at converting immigrants to Protestantism?
The Roman Catholic traditions of immigrants were difficult to overcome.
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They had a hard time identifying immigrants.
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Most immigrants were Muslim and not interested in any form of Christianity.
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They did not know what language to speak with immigrants.
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How did the Pendleton Civil Service Act affect the practice of patronage?
It eliminated the practice for good.
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It triggered a dramatic expansion of the practice.
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It hardly made a dent in patronage.
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It introduced patronage in federal politics for the first time.
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The most thorough program for reform of Gilded Age America in the 1896 election came from
the cities.
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abroad.
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the countryside.
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the working class.
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