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Chapter 19: American Society in the Industrial Age

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	In the late nineteenth century, most middle-class families continued the earlier trend of increasing the birthrate.    True  False

	Late nineteenth-century industrialization increased the standard of living of America's skilled workers.    True  False

	Late nineteenth-century industrialization often reduced the personal contact between employers and workers in the workplace.    True  False

	In the late nineteenth century, American farmers' income and status both went into a steady and relative decline.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	Census records show that late nineteenth-century urban Americans often moved from city to city, rather than staying in one place.    True  False

	Most "new" immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century migrated from Europe to escape religious persecution.    True  False

	America's first immigration restriction law, designed to exclude a specific ethnic group, came in 1882.    True  False

	Immigration restriction laws were partly the result of public fears that "new" immigrants would undermine America's racial purity.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	The completion of the national railroad was the major cause of the growth of cities in late nineteenth-century America.    True  False

	The adoption of streetcar transportation in late nineteenth-century American cities usually had the consequence of increasing the geographical size of cities.    True  False

	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.    True  False

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