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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the El Train introduced?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1898.

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

3. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?
(a) Financial hardship.
(b) The ground often did not yield a crop.
(c) Animals kept dying.
(d) The threat of Indians.

4. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) The health problems of the animals.
(b) Overcrowding.
(c) The constant putrid stench.
(d) The dark smoke emitting from the factories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?

2. Why did winter pose a health problem to those on the frontier according to Bettmann in "Rural Life"?

3. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:

4. To some, the time between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s was known as what?

5. What danger did many industrial laborers face in the latter part of the 19th century?

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