Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 19

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1. If the child of a white middle-class Protestant New Yorker showed her parents the postcard shown in Document 19-1 in 1904 and asked for permission to go to Luna Park, what would the parents’ likely response have been?

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Correct. The answer is d. When Luna Park opened in 1904, it was seen as a source of lowbrow commercial entertainment that was not appropriate for respectable youth, especially young women. Only gradually did the middle class begin to take advantage of the new leisure and recreational activities available in large industrial cities.
Incorrect. The answer is d. When Luna Park opened in 1904, it was seen as a source of lowbrow commercial entertainment that was not appropriate for respectable youth, especially young women. Only gradually did the middle class begin to take advantage of the new leisure and recreational activities available in large industrial cities.

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2. What problem did Jane Addams (Document 19-2) see as blocking the efforts of urban political reformers in Chicago in the late nineteenth century?

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Correct. The answer is a. Addams argued that political reformers were effectively limited by their middle-class attitudes and their condescending approach to immigrants in Chicago’s working-class wards. Put off by the reformers’ messages, working-class Chicagoans continued to support the machine bosses who provided support and much-needed services.
Incorrect. The answer is a. Addams argued that political reformers were effectively limited by their middle-class attitudes and their condescending approach to immigrants in Chicago’s working-class wards. Put off by the reformers’ messages, working-class Chicagoans continued to support the machine bosses who provided support and much-needed services.

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3. In her memoir Rebels: Into Anarchy, and Out Again (Document 19-3), Marie Ganz describes her arrival in New York City as a five-year-old Galician immigrant in 1896. Which of the following elements of Ganz’s experience reflect the broader pattern of national and global migration that occurred in this period?

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Correct. The answer is c. Ganz and her family, like millions of other immigrants around the world, participated in a large migration of population from rural areas to urban ones at the end of the nineteenth century. This pattern of global migration was associated with the industrial revolution, which required an increasing number of factory workers and led to a shrinking number of agricultural workers.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Ganz and her family, like millions of other immigrants around the world, participated in a large migration of population from rural areas to urban ones at the end of the nineteenth century. This pattern of global migration was associated with the industrial revolution, which required an increasing number of factory workers and led to a shrinking number of agricultural workers.

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4. The 1916 article in the New York World entitled “New York Negroes Stage Silent

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Correct. The answer is b. The newspaper article describes the marchers’ orderliness and respectable conduct, and also describes the messages on their signs, which emphasized African Americans’ humanity and contributions to American society. Marchers emphasized African Americans’ respectability and achievements to argue that they deserved equal treatment and that law enforcement officials should treat the perpetrators of lynching as criminals.
Incorrect. The answer is b. The newspaper article describes the marchers’ orderliness and respectable conduct, and also describes the messages on their signs, which emphasized African Americans’ humanity and contributions to American society. Marchers emphasized African Americans’ respectability and achievements to argue that they deserved equal treatment and that law enforcement officials should treat the perpetrators of lynching as criminals.

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5. What was Mary Brown Sumner’s purpose for writing her article “The Spirit of the Strikers” (Document 19-5), and who was her intended audience?

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Correct. The answer is d. Mary Brown Sumner wrote this article in order to mobilize sympathy and support for working women, their unions, and their strikes among educated middle-class Americans who supported progressive reforms.
Incorrect. The answer is d. Mary Brown Sumner wrote this article in order to mobilize sympathy and support for working women, their unions, and their strikes among educated middle-class Americans who supported progressive reforms.

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6. Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle (Document 19-6) serves as an example of which of the following types of progressive-era activism?

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Correct. The answer is b. Sinclair’s The Jungle was a publication aimed at exposing the terrible conditions endured by workers in the meatpacking industry. This book, like Ida Tarbell’s exposé on John D. Rockefeller and David Graham Phillips’s “Treason of the Senate,” inspired thousands of readers to get involved in reform movements and tackle the problems caused by industrialization. Theodore Roosevelt dismissed these writers as “muckrakers” who focused too much on the negative aspects of life, but the term became widely used and lost its pejorative meaning during the course of the progressive era.
Incorrect. The answer is b. Sinclair’s The Jungle was a publication aimed at exposing the terrible conditions endured by workers in the meatpacking industry. This book, like Ida Tarbell’s exposé on John D. Rockefeller and David Graham Phillips’s “Treason of the Senate,” inspired thousands of readers to get involved in reform movements and tackle the problems caused by industrialization. Theodore Roosevelt dismissed these writers as “muckrakers” who focused too much on the negative aspects of life, but the term became widely used and lost its pejorative meaning during the course of the progressive era.