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How did business expansion and consolidation affect the social structure in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

A) Class differences in U.S.society largely disappeared.
B) Racial differences in the U.S.workforce largely disappeared.
C) A new class of white male salaried managers emerged.
D) Women were able to earn higher wages and become managers.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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The racism directed at ethnic immigrant groups in America in the late nineteenth century

A) diminished as each new group of immigrants reached the country and diversified the population.
B) was the product of the perception that ethnic and religious differences were racial characteristics.
C) was directed only at those ethnic groups that had dark skin.
D) divided the immigrant workforce between skilled laborers from Southern and Eastern Europe and unskilled laborers from Northern and Western Europe.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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According to Map 19.2: The Impact of Immigration,to 1910,which region had the highest percentage of immigrants in ca.1910?

During the 1880s,the Knights of Labor advocated for

As middle- and upper-class urbanites moved to new areas of their cities in the late nineteenth century,poor city dwellers

What was the "Chicago school" of the late nineteenth century?

New York City's Central Park was planned to provide

Throughout much of the nineteenth century,middle-class American women were confined by a cultural ideology that dictated that they

How did most new women immigrants come to the United States in the late-nineteenth century?

What did Coney Island symbolize in the late 1800s?

According to Map 19.2: The Impact of Immigration,to 1910,which of the following states had the highest percentage of immigrant inhabitants?

What was the Knights of Labor?

The advent of the adding machine,typewriter,and cash register had the greatest impact on

Beginning in the 1870s,American men of all classes were united in their passion for

Samuel Gompers,the founder of the American Federation of Labor,

What happened to the World's Columbian Exposition site after it closed its doors in October 1894?

"Storm the fort ye Knights of Labor, Battle for your cause; Equal rights for every neighbor Down with tyrant laws! Lazy drones steal all the honey From hard labor's hives; Bankers control the nation's money And destroy our lives." In the Knights of Labor's 1882 anthem "Storm the Fronts," who were the "tyrants" against whom the Knights fought?

What did the public school system in late-nineteenth-century American cities provide?

Which of the following describes the economic survival of the nineteenth-century American working-class family?

What developed as a result of the opening of department stores in the late-nineteenth-century United States?