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The Tenement Reform Law of 1879 was designed to improve living conditions for tenement dwellers.

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One of the first targets of urban reform was New York's


A) Indian reservations.
B) Central Park.
C) tenements.
D) opera houses.

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Many rural Americans entering cities had been pushed out of agricultural labor by


A) Latin American labor competition.
B) Asian American immigration.
C) African American sharecroppers.
D) the invention of machinery.

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Dwight Moody preached a traditional evangelical Christianity in cities.

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Manufacturing shifted to cities as power systems shifted from water to


A) steam.
B) electricity.
C) nuclear.
D) solar.

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A sympathy strike against Pullman was led by


A) Eugene Debs.
B) Nelson Rockefeller.
C) Andrew Carnegie.
D) Bill Gates.

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The Chinese met with a violent backlash in the state of


A) Massachusetts.
B) New York.
C) New Jersey.
D) California.

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The _________immigration station was the first stop for most immigrants arriving in New York City in the 1890s.

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By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the antebellum "walking city"


A) expanded.
B) remained the same.
C) disappeared.
D) declined slightly.

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In 1898, the city of __________ consolidated into a large metropolis.

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One of the most famous political machines was New York's


A) Ryker's Island.
B) Brooklyn Cohort.
C) Tammany Hall.
D) Chicago Club.

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In New Mexico, the ___________ exploited local Mexican Americans for cheap lands.

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Describe the growth of Chicago.

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Founded on Lake Michigan in 1833, Chicag...

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Presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison set aside ________ reserves.


A) fish
B) forest
C) marine
D) vernal pool

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In 1889, Jane Addams and her friend, ____________, helped start Hull House in Chicago.

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All of the following were pollution problems of nineteenth century cities EXCEPT


A) coal dust and fumes.
B) ashes in the air.
C) acidic soil.
D) radiation contamination.

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In 1871, a fire destroyed the city of


A) San Francisco.
B) Buffalo.
C) Chicago.
D) New Orleans.

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Atlanta was known as the "Chicago of the South" because of its proximity to a


A) nuclear power plant.
B) railroad hub.
C) stockyards.
D) high mountains.

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