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Certainly! Let’s delve into the World History I - Part 1 exam. Here are some questions and answers related to this topic:
Which choice is not a characteristic of cities in the 1800s?
Answer: A huge decline in poverty and crime1.
Who wrote “How the Other Half Lives,” the book that brought the miseries of tenement life to national attention?
Answer: Jacob Riis1.
Which term was unlikely to be part of the transportation revolution in cities and suburbs in the late 1800s?
Answer: Highways1.
Which statement best describes the growth of cities in the late 1800s?
Answer: Cities grew rapidly as both immigrants and native-born citizens sought higher paying jobs1.
Which is not a way in which cities of the late 1800s became more stratified?
Answer: Gender1.
Which architect helped the city of Chicago rebuild after the fire and is known for using the idea that a building’s function should influence its design?
Answer: Louis Sullivan1.
Who designed New York’s Central Park as a beautiful escape from urban life?
Answer: Frederick Law Olmsted1.
How did innovative transportation changes, such as the streetcar, affect the development of nineteenth-century cities?
Answer: Cities could grow and expand to the suburbs because people no longer had to walk everywhere1.
Which choice was not an amusement that became popular in the growing cities of the late 1800s?
Answer: Hockey1.
What was one problem with politics in the late 1800s?
Answer: Machines like Tammany Hall accepted bribes, took graft, and helped people in exchange for votes1.
What happened to the populations of cities in the period between the Civil War and the 1920s?
Answer: They grew because of job opportunities1.
Where did most immigrants choose to live when they entered the United States in the late 1800s or early 1900s?
Answer: In cities1.
Which had the greatest impact on the growth of cities and the expansion of cities to suburbs?
Answer: Transportation innovations1.
Which group contains entertainment or amusements that developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Answer: Group A (baseball, vaudeville, the Ferris wheel, movies)1.
How did Louis Sullivan and William Jenney change the face of American cities in the late 1800s?
Answer: They designed and built early skyscrapers1.
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