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The Industrial City:
Building It, Living in It
A. True-False
Where the statement is true, mark T. Where it is false, mark F
______ 1. As the "skyscraper" was the aesthetic perceptions of American architects
______ 2. Caused by suburbanization the lives of families became intense and affectionate. ______ 3. Children of middle class could turn to formal education and were encouraged to
devote themselves to self-development.
______ 4. Contraception caused the detriment of health and the detriment of moral fiber, yet it later became more acceptable and reliable.
______ 5. Development's like the telephone , trolley car, skyscraper, elevator, and electric lighting triggered an increase in urban population.
______ 6. Elite were socially ambitious, searching for business opportunities that offered social recognition as well as dominating social heights.
______ 7. Embellishing life was not to conserve the idea of culture which sustained the generous patronage.
______ 8. Industrialism became inevitable because of another inevitability of American life— urbanization
______ 9. Late in the nineteenth century the Age of the Bachelor, gained in social stigma achieving the pride in independence, and being one owns boss.
______ 10. Many people in industrial cities grew and relied on living in exclusive neighborhoods, the display of wealth, and being a member in exclusive clubs.
outlying towns.
______ 12. Migrants could always recreate the cities they left behind building new institution and learning to function in an impersonal heterogeneous environment.
______ 13. Physical burden on the domestic homemaker consists of the responsibility for bringing sensibility, love, and beauty.
______ 14. Residential areas were taken over by commercial developing forcing the elite to have a country lifestyle.
______ 15. Southern blacks faced race prejudice and discrimination but still developed their own communities in northern cities at the turn of the century.
______ 16. The Gaslight produced from coal was the technology brightening city's and made it commercially feasible in the 1870's.
______ 17. Traditional Protestantism was unseen from the urban constituency, with their fashionable congregations and edifices.
______ 18. Urban culture had developed in America causing a large population of people whom felt at home in the modern cities
______ 19. Use of public lands was subject to any regulations of the city, later improving the physical infrastructure.
______ 20. With the "vertical aesthetic" buildings, the demand for space in New York initially marked the begging of the modern skyline.
B. Multiple Choice
Select the best answer and write the proper letter in the space provided.
_______ 21.) Urbanization became inevitable because of another inevitability of American life? What was the other inevitability?
A: Industrialization B: City Innovation C: Suburbanization D: Political Machines
_______ 22.) New York’s enormous pools of immigrant workers made it a magnet city for all following except…
A: Cigar making B: Garment trades
C: Diversified light industry D: Electricity
_______ 23.) Choose the correct order of mass transit innovations from the earliest to the latest. A: Grooved rail, electric trolley car, horsecar, omnibus
B: Horsecar, grooved rail, omnibus, electric trolley car. C: Omnibus, horsecar, grooved rail, electric trolley. D: Electric trolley, grooved rail, horsecar, omnibus. _______ 24.) The first use of electricity was for…
A: Better city lighting B: Industrial areas
C: Parks and undeveloped land D: Streetcar lines
_______ 25.) The idea of private city believed that…
A: The sum of private activity would far exceed what the community might accomplish through public effort.
B: Public effort through the community would help individuals flourish.
C: Wealthy individuals should be the only ones to contribute to community affairs. D: The middle class should be in charge of helping the impoverished and their communities.
_______ 26.) The “City Beautiful” movement resulted in all o the following except… A: Larger park systems like Central Park
B: Broad boulevards and parkways C: Zoning laws and planned suburbs D: Tenement buildings.
_______ 27.) All of the following areas were wealthy hearts of the citites except… A: Gold Coast, Chicago
B: Nob Hill in San Francisco C: Fifth Avenue in Manhattan D: Hamptons in New York
_______ 28) The extravagant life of leisure included all of the following except.. A: Resorts in Saratoga Springs and Palm Beach
B: Summer “cottages” in Newport
C: “ Free passes” in the eyes of the police court. D: Private railway cars and yachts.
_______ 29) All of the following are advice literature about the cult of domesticity except.. A: Ladies Home Journal
B: Good Housekeeping C: Vogue
_______ 30) Suburban development conformed to … A: The haphazard life of the city
B: Economics of real estate and transportation C: the people living in suburbs
D: Higher quality homemaking
_______ 31.) The cult of masculinity was centered in the city due to all of the following except.. A: Men’s clubs and saloons
B: Urban scene C: Politics
D: Sporting events
_______ 32.) The sexual revolution can all be attributed to A: Anthony Comstock
B: Increase in unwanted birth
C: Needs of men in the 1890s growing D: Sexual repression
_______ 33.) Preparation for adulthood became increasingly linked to.. A: Formal Education
B: Growth of cities C: Cult of Masculinity D: “New Woman”
_______ 34.) To provide help in times of sickness or death immigrants organized… A:’ Ghettos
B: YMCA/YWCA C: Mutual aid societies’ D: Singing societies
_______ 35.) In the face of pervasive discrimination urban blacks built their own communities characterized by all of the following except..
A: Flourishing press B: Fraternal orders C: Rich institutional life D: Methodist Churches
_______ 36.) Political machines did not A: Depend on grassroots constituency B: Made bribes in return for their betterment C: Provide jobs for the jobless
D: Have layers of functionaries whose main job was to be accessible and serve the needs of the party faithful.
_______ 37.) Which of the following describes the problem faced by the Catholic Church in the 1890s?
A: Americanism B: Protestantism C: Judaism D: Integration
_______ 38.) The Catholic Church accommodated itself to the demands of ethnic identity in Urban America by
A: Creating a “ Half-Way” Covenant
B: Separating immigrant and Catholic Churches C: Appointing immigrant priests as auxiliary bishops
D: Creating the Salvation Army and other assistance programs _______ 39.) The most successful male diversion was…
A: Baseball B: Dancing Halls C: Vaudevilles D: Amusement parks
_______ 40) William Randolph Hearst created this type of press. A: Yellow Journalism
B: Muckraking C: Page 7 (scandals)
D: Cartoon strip journalism
C. Identification
Supply the correct identification for each numbered description
____________ 41. As this continued to grow, cities and factories began to merge together as one.
____________ 42. The type of transportation that was more effective than the horse- drawn carriage and whose highlighted feature was the fact that it ran on iron tracks, enabling it to pull more passengers at a faster rate.
____________ 43. Illuminating gas that was produced from coal
____________ 44. The term used to describe the city inhabiting individuals pursuing their own goals and focusing on making money.
____________ 45. The code that required interior courts, indoor toilets, and fire safeguards for new structures.
____________ 46. The group of people who had showy displays of wealth, membership in exclusive clubs, and residence in exclusive neighborhoods.
____________ 47. The list of people holding the highest status in New York Societ, according to McAllister.
____________ 48. The four types of people who were the backbone of the large American middle class.
____________ 49. Nearly 9 million people held this type of job, which was more than a fourth of all employed Americans.
____________ 50. A time when being an unattached male lost its social stigma and became an acceptable alternative for many men.
____________ 51. The system created by George Washington Plunkitt that arranged housing for burned- out families.
____________ 52. When politics cut across ethnic lines and gave immigrants and blacks a stake in the larger urban order.
____________ 53. Hearst’s brand of sensationalism consisting of murders, scandals, and sob stories.
____________ 54. The era of materialism and cultural shallowness
____________ 55. According to Reverend Henry Ward Beech, this attempts to work out its end with only the use of the exquisite.
____________ 56. What setting gave bachelors all the luxuries of home and various clubs, saloons, and sporting events?
____________ 57. Which group of people wanted to “belong” in New York society? ____________ 58. What raised land values in downtown areas?
____________ 59. Which level of society was hit the hardest by urban growth?
____________ 60. What allowed entrepreneurs to locate factories at places best situated in relation to suppliers and markets?
Match the person, place, or event in the left column to the proper description in the right column by inserting the correct letter on the blank line.
_____ 61. The Salvation Army A. The man taught the socially
ambitious how to set a proper table, arrange a party, and select guests.
_____ 62. The Corcoran Gallery of Art B. The inventor of the telephone
_____ 63. Charles Dana Gibson C. This Reverend performed the famous sermon, “Acres of Diamonds.”
_____ 64. Andrew Carnegie D. Advocates of birth control had to contend with this man who was an agent of the post office
_____ 65. Chicago E. This man announced that he would Build a library in any town that was ready to maintain them
_____ 66. Graham Bell F. This organization spread the
Importance of repentance among the urban poor and built a help program
_____ 67. “City Beautiful” movement G. This believed that housing for single Women was an especially important Task to complete
_____ 68. Manhattan’s Union Baptist Church H. The head architect for Chicago school buildings.
_____ 69. Theodore Dreiser I. The movement that resulted in
Larger park systems, broad boulevards and parkways, and planned suburbs
_____ 70. Dwight L. Moody J. The church that attracted the new residents of this budding city that made Christianity come “alive Sunday morning.” _____ 71. Catharine Beecher K. This city’s water works pumped 500
million gallons of water a day.
_____ 72. New York L. The nation’s first museum that opened in Washington D.C.
_____ 73. Ward McAllister M. He designed New York City’s Central Park.
_____ 74. YMCA N. A former Chicago shoe salesman and YMCA official who became a preacher. _____ 75. Reverend Russell H. Conwell O. She wrote the best-selling book The
American Woman’s Home in 1869. _____ 76. Thomas Edison P. This city ranked as the nation’s largest
manufacturing center.
_____ 77. Frederick Law Olmsted Q. The man who wrote The Titan in 1914. _____ 78. Anthony Comstock R. The inventor of the incandescent bulb _____ 79. Charles F. Brush S. This person created the image of the “new
woman.”
F. Matching Cause and Effect
Match the historical cause in the left column with the proper effect in the right column by writing the correct letter on the blank line.
Cause
_______ 81. There was increasing populations in the cities, residents of the American cities lived the millionaires and a growing white-collar middle class.
_______ 82. The demand in innovation and the increase of technological achievements. _______ 83. The Gaslight which was produced from coal that caused the cities to be dim in streets and public spaces.
_______ 84. The private city with the private activity exceeded what the community might accomplish through public effort, initially private land was subject to any regulations the city had it. The better staffed and organized functioned better.
_______ 85. Cities remain polluted and filthy mostly effecting the poor; in which land values destroyed houses sticking families of a large number into airless apartments.
_______ 86. Social class distinctions; where most upper class and middle class followed.
_______ 87. The elite families moved to the scenic hills were the cities residential areas filled instead with commercial development. _______ 88. The high society with their private railway car, yachts, and amused
themselves with the races and casinos, yet ending in police court.
Effect
A. The domesticity of one had to rely on the family breadwinner, and was thought to be below him in intellect and dynamism. B. The disapproval of uncoupling sex soon changed around the 1890s was the use of contraceptives was dependable and suitable.
C. They created their own communities becoming urban blacks they had women’s organizations, and a middle class of doctors, lawyers, and small entrepreneurs. D. Urban industry areas emerged; steam engines, railroads, iron makers, coal and ore-fields; cheap labor in the port cites were immigrant workers made garment trades, cigar making, and diversified the light industry.
E. They acted by providing jobs for the jobless, social service agency, helping the bereaved family, and intercession against city bureaucracy.
F. Effected the changing cities physical infrastructure, transit lines, sky scrapers, steam engines, and subways
G. Now dominating the social heights, became more socially ambitious and were prepared to make use of their money where it was a business center full of
_______ 89. The household was a place of production or the pre-industrial economy that also intertwined with family life. _______90. At the time the role of a wife was to manage a household, to bring sensibility, beauty, and love to the household.
_______91. The census of the progression in to marriage of the male born was two-fifths
