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Cities And American Culture
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1. Brookly Bridge was built - First suburbs were created - Traffic and jammed streets.
William randolph Hearst
Yellow Journalism
Moving people
Winslow Homer
2. A variety show that included comedians - acrobats and other performances
Vaudeville
Realism
Winslow Homer
Jack London
3. People that wanted to change - pressured city governments
Frederick Law Olmsted
Vaudeville
Reformers
Early 1800's
4. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories
Department Store
Urbanization
Dime Novels
Parochial
5. News reporting that is often biased or false; it also sensationalized headlines and stories to boost sales
Football
Yellow Journalism
Local Color
Baseball
6. A realistic Painter
Nellie Bly
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Building Codes
Winslow Homer
7. Writer who used local color
Disease/Sickness
Early 1800's
African Americans
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
8. What did the urban middle class depend on?
Infant mortality
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Jack London
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
9. Struggle to survive in slums
Tenements turn into death traps
Urban poor
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
methodist church
10. Planned Central Park in NY
Boston
Moving people
Frederick Law Olmsted
Reformers
11. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
1 out of 5
James Eads
Realism
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
12. Created first modern mass circulation newspaper (New York World)
Football
Urbanization
Joseph pulitzer
Nellie Bly
13. What was the most popular sport in the nation?
Reformers
Baseball
Department Store
James Eads
14. laws that set standards for construction and safety
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Chautauqua society
Building Codes
Football
15. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)
Disease/Sickness
Jane Addams
Jacob Riis
Building Upward
16. Publisher who used yellow journalism
William randolph Hearst
1 out of 5
Boston
Urban poor
17. An author who wrote realistic stories about the wilderness such as 'White Fang'
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Tenement
Jack London
William randolph Hearst
18. A reformer who founded the hull house
Chautauqua society
Jane Addams
Infant mortality
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
19. How long is a typical school day?
Early 1800's
On the Outskirts of the city
Winslow Homer
8 am to 4 pm
20. Started in London: it spread christian teachings and offered help to the poor
Salvation Army
William randolph Hearst
Dime Novels
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
21. What were the conditions of the tenements
Local Color
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Dime Novels
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
22. These speech and habits of a particular region
Moving people
Building Upward
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Local Color
23. Was a school for grown up' - and was in the summer. created in 1874
William randolph Hearst
African Americans
methodist church
Nellie Bly
24. Where did the rich live?
On the Outskirts of the city
Vaudeville
Jack London
Frederick Law Olmsted
25. How did a Building boom changes american cities
Urbanization
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Joseph pulitzer
26. Two reasons african americans moved to cities
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Moving people
Winslow Homer
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
27. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker
Scott Joplin
Building Codes
Salvation Army
Building Upward
28. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws
methodist church
Social Gospel
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
African Americans
29. These were tall building that were supported by a lightweight steel frame
Baseball
Realism
Skyscraper
Early 1800's
30. Where was the first 9 story skyscraper built and why?
Chautauqua society
On the Outskirts of the city
William randolph Hearst
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
31. Who made up the middle class?
African Americans
Jane Addams
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Skyscraper
32. A type of school that is sponsored by the Church
Scott Joplin
Parochial
Moving people
8 am to 4 pm
33. A style of writing and art that tried to depict life just as it was
Realism
Early 1800's
Jacob Riis
Nellie Bly
34. MLB banned these players when it started
African Americans
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Boston
Jane Addams
35. A six or seven story building that was divided in to smaller buildings
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Boston
Moving people
Tenement
36. These sold many products all under one roof
Football
Department Store
Baseball
On the Outskirts of the city
37. Writer who exposed poor living conditions in inner cities/slums
On the Outskirts of the city
Jacob Riis
Urbanization
8 am to 4 pm
38. A nine story department store built in 1902
Jack London
Building Upward
R.H. Macy
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
39. What are the 3 r's?
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40. Where was the first subway built in 1897
Urban poor
On the Outskirts of the city
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Boston
41. These required children to attend School: These were passed mainly in the north.
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Disease/Sickness
Compulsory Education Laws
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
42. The growth of cities: the movement of people from rural areas or elsewhere to the cities
Urbanization
Building Codes
James Eads
1 out of 5
43. High rates of babies dying
Infant mortality
African Americans
Parochial
Compulsory Education Laws
44. Built and designed a 3 arches across Mississippi river at St. Louis
Skyscraper
Parochial
James Eads
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
45. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor
Early 1800's
Social Gospel
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
African Americans
46. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular
Disease/Sickness
Scott Joplin
Urban poor
Moving people
47. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals
Nellie Bly
Vaudeville
Tenements turn into death traps
Tenement
48. How do Americans spend their leisure time?
8 am to 4 pm
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Moving people
49. Sent out traveling groups to educate people
Vaudeville
Chautauqua society
Urbanization
Tenement
50. One Big Urban problem
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Scott Joplin
Realism
Tenements turn into death traps
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