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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. What was the General Slocum?

2. According to Bettmann in "Health," medical colleges were designed primarily to do what?

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

4. What kind of education did a teacher have to have in the late 1800s?

5. How could travel in the Victorian period be defined?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the lack of medical advances affect the population of the post Civil War era?

3. Why were the some ocean liners nicknamed "fever ships" and "floating coffins"?

4. What were doctors on the frontier like, and what were the primary diseases that ravaged the country populations?

5. How did alcohol affect families on the frontier?

6. What teaching methods were emphasized by many teachers in the late 1800s?

7. What were some of the characteristics of the one-room schoolhouses on the prairie?

8. In the late 1800s, what was the most effective way to fight diseases coming to America by ship?

9. What was the extent of the prostitution industry in New York City in the late 19th century?

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the medical training that doctors received in the post Civil War era. What is a "diploma-mill" school? Who profited from such institutions? Contrast those schools with the medical schools of today.

Essay Topic 3

Explain why child labor in the late 19th century was so popular. Why did employers like to employ children? Were children given special consideration by employees? How did many parents feel about their children working at such an early age? What types of jobs were popular for children?

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