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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?

3. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?

4. Before cars, what was the main source of transportation in the late 1800s?

5. Who was A.T. Stewart?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did many farmers on the frontier become financially in debt?

2. How does author Otto Bettman attempt to shatter the misconception of this era, and what is the result?

3. How did many young people in the late 1800s react to seeing the laborious life their parents led?

4. In the era after the Civil War, what was a major cause of the hideous traffic problems in the large American cities like New York?

5. According to the chapter "Air," what were some of the problems with using a streetcar for transportation?

6. What was the most famous sewing-related sweatshop in New York?

7. How did the apartments of the late 1800s often turn into death traps for its occupants?

8. What was the El Train, and what was it's purpose when it was introduced in 1868?

9. What caused the local wells on the frontier to become contaminated?

10. According to Bettmann in "Work," where were the most dangerous places to work in the cities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did drug addiction become so widespread in the late 1800s? Which addictive drugs were commonly accessible to the public? What types of over-the-counter medications routinely contained harmful addictive drugs? Compare this situation with the types of drugs available over-the-counter today, and the relegation to the "illegal" status of the common rugs of the late 19th century.

Essay Topic 2

Is education a right or a privilege? Or both? Provide examples to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the many ways that milk was adulterated for profit in the late 1800s. What was "swill milk"? How does it make you feel about buying milk today?

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