Question: reasons for urbanization

Answer: JOBS

Question: Jacob Riis

Answer: Danish immigrant who moved to New York in the late nineteenth century, built career as police reporter, wrote “How the Other Half Lives”, told the story with his photographs

Question: Which of the following four elements was not essential for creating massive urban growth in late nineteenth-century America?

1. electric lighting

2. B. communication improvements

3. C. skyscrapers

4. D. settlement houses

5. Answer: D

6. Question: Which of the following did the settlement house movement offer as a means of relief for working-class women?

7. A. childcare

8. B. job opportunities

9. C. political advocacy

10. D. relocation services

11. Answer: A

12. Question: Social gospel

13. Answer: the belief that the church should be as concerned about the conditions of people in the secular world as it was with their afterlife

14. Question: settlement house movement

15. Answer: an early progressive reform movement, largely spearheaded by women, which sought to offer services such as childcare and free healthcare to help the working poor

16. Question: Rev. Washington Gladden

17. Answer: major advocate for social gospel

18. Question: Jane Addams & Lillian Wald

19. Answer: in New York led this early progressive reform settlement house movement in the United States, building upon ideas originally fashioned by social reformers in England

20. -Jane Addams opened Hull House and Wald’s Henry Street Settlement opened in New York six years later

21. Question: National Child Labor Committee

22. Answer: advocated for the subsequent creation of the Children’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor in 1912

23. Question: Julia Lathrop

24. Answer: became the first woman to head a federal government agency (Children’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor and National Child Labor Committee)