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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rural Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area in New York City had an abundance of industrial factories in the early 19th century ?
(a) Hunter's Point.
(b) Lower East side.
(c) Chelsea.
(d) New York City.

2. The air quality in homes was dangerous in the late 1800s because of:
(a) Sewer gas from primitive drainage systems.
(b) Animals that were kept indoors.
(c) The smog would get trapped inside.
(d) High temperatures from the heat outside.

3. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Stuyvesant Apartments.
(c) Lakeside Apartments.
(d) Park Place.

4. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," why would many young girls leave the country for the promise of the city?
(a) They thought they could find husbands easier in the city.
(b) They would be sent to earn a wage to help the family.
(c) They watched their mothers grow prematurely old with toil.
(d) Their families could no longer afford to feed them.

5. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?
(a) No crops.
(b) Pestilence.
(c) Debt.
(d) Drought.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Civil War, how did the railroad monopoly hurt the rural farmers?

2. In the time after the Civil War, humans generated an amazing amount of:

3. Traffic in the large American cities in the late 1800s was:

4. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?

5. What was the main cause of lung irritation, vomiting and sickness for people in the large cities in the early 19th century?

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