American Yawp Chapter 18 Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

Immigrant Americans tended to vote for which political party? {Ans: Democratic}All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts, languages, and traditions EXCEPT {Ans: Rotary clubs}Which census first revealed that a majority of Americans were living in cities {Ans: 1920}By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent of the population? {Ans: 60%}In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry? {Ans: Chicago}What was the Lost Cause? {Ans: A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves}