Discovering Our Past: The American Journey to World War I

Chapter 17: America Enters a New Century

Self-Check Quiz

1
The “new” immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1880s were from all but which of the following countries?
A)Greece
B)Russia
C)Great Britain
D)Hungary
2
Immigrants arriving at San Francisco were checked through __________.
A)Angel Island
B)Alcatraz Island
C)Ellis Island
D)Chincoteague Island
3
Americans who opposed immigration were part of the __________.
A)Chatauqua Movement
B)Exclusion Movement
C)America for Americans Movement
D)Nativist Movement
4
An apartment building in a poor, run-down urban neighborhood was called a __________.
A)tenement
B)condominium
C)slum
D)shelter
5
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published a novel in 1893 called __________. The title became associated with America of the late 1800s.
A)The Luck of Roaring Camp
B)The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
C)The Prince and the Pauper
D)The Gilded Age
6
Jane Addams founded __________.
A)Vassar College
B)Hull House
C)the Woolworth Company
D)the YWCA
7
The first skyscraper was designed by __________.
A)Elisha Otis
B)Jacob Riis
C)Frederick Olmsted
D)William LeBaron Jenney
8
States used funds made available through the Morrill Act to __________.
A)open public parks
B)build public libraries
C)start land-grant colleges
D)improve high school education programs
9
William Randolph Heart's newspapers practiced __________ journalism.
A)yellow
B)investigative
C)narrative
D)basic
10
An entirely new form of music that developed in New Orleans in the late 1800s was __________.
A)country
B)hip-hop
C)gospel
D)jazz
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