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American Society in the Industrial Age
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1 .       In the late nineteenth century, most middle-class families continued the earlier trend of increasing the birthrate. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Late nineteenth-century industrialization increased the standard of living of America's skilled workers. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Late nineteenth-century industrialization often reduced the personal contact between employers and workers in the workplace. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       In the late nineteenth century, American farmers' income and status both went into a steady and relative decline. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       Owing to the variation in the number of family members employed, there was considerable difference in the standard of living among late nineteenth-century working class families. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Census records show that late nineteenth-century urban Americans often moved from city to city, rather than staying in one place. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Most "new" immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century migrated from Europe to escape religious persecution. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       America's first immigration restriction law, designed to exclude a specific ethnic group, came in 1882. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       Immigration restriction laws were partly the result of public fears that "new" immigrants would undermine America's racial purity. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Most "new" immigrants from southern and eastern Europe after 1880 moved to the West as quickly as possible where they used their reserve funds to buy family farms. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       The completion of the national railroad was the major cause of the growth of cities in late nineteenth-century America. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       The adoption of streetcar transportation in late nineteenth-century American cities usually had the consequence of increasing the geographical size of cities. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Even in the face of the multitude of problems created by late nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization, most Americans still remained optimistic admirers of their own civilization. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American education steadily improved in response to the social and economic conditions created by industrialization and urbanization. [Hint]

 
 


15 .       Urban slums in late nineteenth-century America rapidly eroded the cultural distinctiveness of the "new" immigrants. [Hint]

 
 






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