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To what does the term "private city" refer in historians' discussions of urban life in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

Urban areas shaped by individuals and profit-seeking businesses

How did the early-twentieth-century campaign against prostitution affect prostitutes in many Americans cities at the time?

By closing brothels, new laws worsened many prostitutes' lives.

A mob of whites attacked the black community in 1906 in which city?

Atlanta

In what way was the power of city governments limited?

They were subject to state law.

In the early 1900s, a baby born to a Slavic woman in an American city had what chance of dying in infancy?

One in 3

At the turn of the twentieth century, 90 percent of African Americans still lived in what region?

The South

What prompted urban reform movements in the 1890s?

Widespread suffering from the depression of that decade

Working separately in the 1880s and 1890s, researcher Helen Campbell and photographer Jacob Riis both sought to call attention to what problem?

Miserable conditions in urban tenement housing

Which city was the first to build an underground railroad line?

Boston

What impact did city politics have on immigrant communities in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

Integrated them into urban society

In the late nineteenth century, many cities cut death rates from typhoid, yellow fever, and cholera by instituting what?

New sewage and drainage systems

What was the main feature of the "yellow journalism" of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and other newspaper publishers of the late nineteenth century?

Sensational stories

The dominance of private development in U.S. cities and the preference for business solutions to city needs are expressed in what concept?

The "private city"

What was the purpose of the phenomenon that took shape in the United States in the late nineteenth century and came to be known as progressivism?

To combat the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization in the United States

Why did most black men and women who migrated to the large cities of the North between 1880 and 1917 end up working in the service sector?

They were routinely rejected from other jobs.

How did the city of Chicago address its sewage problem around the turn of the century?

It reversed the course of the Chicago River.

What was the Triangle factory fire?

A sweatshop fire that resulted in the deaths of nearly 150 people

Which technological innovation transformed urban nightlife in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

Electric wiring

What were the political machines that played such a vital role in late-nineteenth-century American cities?

Local party bureaucracies that controlled elected and appointed offices

Why did New York State undertake serious workplace safety reforms after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911?

In response to public outrage

The nation's first electric trolley car system was built in which American city?

Richmond

What political boss made Tammany Hall a byword for corruption in the late nineteenth century?

William Marcy Tweed

Congress passed the Mann Act in 1910 to achieve what purpose?

Prohibit the transportation of prostitutes across state lines

Beginning in the 1850s and accelerating in the late nineteenth century, the spread of railroads in the United States spurred the growth of

suburbs

Why were audiences at the Metropolitan Opera in New York shocked by an opera presented there in 1907?

The Metropolitan performed the sexually scandalous opera Salome.

Which ethnic group was the largest in Boston in the late nineteenth century?

Irish

During the depression of the 1890s, what percentage of working-class Americans was unemployed?

Up to 25 percent

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