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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. Who managed the insane asylums of the late 1800s?

2. What was the General Slocum?

3. What was a chief concern with train travel in the late 1800s?

4. How were the boilers a danger to the ferries according to Bettmann in "Travel"?

5. According to Bettmann in "Education," what was the pitiful education for blacks due to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were criminals treated in the prisons in the late 1800s?

2. What one food was the frontier diet staple?

3. In the late 19th century, how did city doctors often do more harm than good to their patients?

4. In the late 1800s, why were the police not much help in the fight against crime?

5. How did teachers fight the lack of discipline in the schoolroom in the late 1800s?

6. What type of education did blacks receive during the post Civil War era?

7. Why didn't people turn to vegetables given the state of the meat industry?

8. After the Civil War, how effective were the hospitals at helping the sick and infirm?

9. In the late 19th century, how did ocean liner travel exemplify the differences in travel for the rich and travel for the poor?

10. How was drug addiction so rampant in the average population in the late 1800s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did fear and the relative lawlessness of the open prairie play into the minds of homesteaders? What were some of the threats that homesteaders had to worry about?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the tactics used by the police in the form of "protection" or "non-harassment" fees in the late 1800s to tactics later used by the organized mafia. Are they similar? Different? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 3

Large cities (like New York) were inundated with trash in the late 1800s. Why was there so much trash in public places? What weather factors exacerbated the problem of the rotting trash and putrid stench? Particularly, how were the poor affected by these circumstances?

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