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Multiple Choice

This activity contains 15 questions.

	By 1900, most Americans lived in   tenement dwellings. central cities or suburbs. suburbs. small towns or on farms. central cities.

	What was the average life expectancy of Americans in 1900?   forty-seven years, but only forty-five years for African Americans fifty-seven years, but only fifty-three years for African Americans forty-seven years, but only thirty-three years for African Americans In 1900, records of average life-expectancy were not kept. thirty-seven years, but only thirty-five years for African Americans

	Late-nineteenth-century reforms benefiting women included   the right to vote. laws requiring that women receive equal pay for equal work. laws mandating that women control their own earnings. a higher status for housewives. None of the answers are correct.

	During the late nineteenth century, American women did NOT   espouse fewer reforms than earlier generations of American women. cease to be chattel of their husbands under the laws of many states. move into the workforce in greater numbers. None of the answers are correct. All of the answers are correct.

	Educational changes in the years 1877 to 1900 did NOT include   a highly structured curriculum. a decrease in illiteracy. development of the kindergarten. education as a field of university study. compulsory school attendance in all states.

	Which of the following arrangement of events is in the correct chronological order?   Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Morrill Land Grant Act, establishment of Tuskegee Institute None of the configurations are accurate. Morrill Land Grant Act, establishment of Tuskegee Institute, Plessy v. Ferguson decision Morrill Land Grant Act, Plessy v. Ferguson decision, establishment of Tuskegee Institute establishment of Tuskegee Institute, Morrill Land Grant Act,Plessy v.Ferguson decision

	In response to Booker T. Washington's policies of political passivity and vocational training, W. E. B. Du Bois proposed political   passivity and vocational training. None of the answers are correct. passivity and intellectual education. activism and vocational training. activism and intellectual education.

	Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism held that   society evolved by adapting to the environment through social selection. humans advanced civilization through social cooperation. salvation came through clerical mediation. government should help the poor to overcome the "struggle to survive." society should help the rich and powerful to encourage "survival of the fittest."

	As a solution to poverty in modern society, Henry George proposed to   replace all taxes with a single tax on land. establish a socialist utopia in which the government owned the means of production. let nature take its evolutionary course. tax only the wealthy. establish worker and farmer "cooperatives" to own the means of production.

	Leaders of the settlement house movement tried to   create small-town values and community for their city neighborhoods. help immigrants to learn American history and language while preserving their own ethnic heritage. All of the answers are correct. reduce school dropouts. regulate child labor.

	Which of the following authors argued that the American ideal of women's "innocence" really meant their ignorance?   Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Women and Economics Helen Campbell in Women Wage Earners Edward Bliss Foote in Plain Home Talk of Love, Marriage, and Parentage None of the answers are correct. Bessie and Marie Von Vorst in The Woman Who Toils

	Changes in higher education included all of the following except   the first separate graduate schools. more educational opportunities for women. All of the answers are correct. an increased emphasis on a classical curriculum. an increased number of colleges and universities.

	According to George Washington Plunkett, political "machines" survived because they   offered needed services for the poor. "might makes right". offered good, honest government. All of the answers are correct. bought votes with "honest graft."

	Significant medical developments in Victorian America included all of the following except   None of the answers are correct. discovery that germs cause infection and disease. more antiseptic practices in childbirth. relatively safe and painless surgery. prevention of tuberculosis, typhoid, and diphtheria.

	Which approach to poverty was used by professional social workers but not by church and charity volunteers?   reform of individual families alleviation of underlying conditions of poverty humiliation and persuasion tactics help in alleviating the suffering caused by economic depression all of the answers are correct.

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