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Cities And American Culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the 3 r's?
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2. Built and designed a 3 arches across Mississippi river at St. Louis
Jacob Riis
Jack London
On the Outskirts of the city
James Eads
3. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals
Urban poor
Salvation Army
Skyscraper
Nellie Bly
4. What did the urban middle class depend on?
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Infant mortality
Chautauqua society
5. Sent out traveling groups to educate people
Tenements turn into death traps
1 out of 5
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Chautauqua society
6. News reporting that is often biased or false; it also sensationalized headlines and stories to boost sales
Vaudeville
Winslow Homer
Yellow Journalism
Building Upward
7. Writer who used local color
Boston
Jane Addams
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Dime Novels
8. Where was the first subway built in 1897
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Building Codes
8 am to 4 pm
Boston
9. High rates of babies dying
1 out of 3
Infant mortality
methodist church
Building Upward
10. These required children to attend School: These were passed mainly in the north.
Infant mortality
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Urbanization
Compulsory Education Laws
11. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories
Jane Addams
Department Store
Disease/Sickness
Dime Novels
12. In 1890 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
1 out of 3
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Winslow Homer
Urbanization
13. laws that set standards for construction and safety
Building Codes
Baseball
8 am to 4 pm
Local Color
14. How did a Building boom changes american cities
Building Upward
Nellie Bly
On the Outskirts of the city
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
15. A nine story department store built in 1902
Jack London
Compulsory Education Laws
African Americans
R.H. Macy
16. MLB banned these players when it started
Jack London
African Americans
Scott Joplin
Moving people
17. A type of school that is sponsored by the Church
Moving people
Chautauqua society
Realism
Parochial
18. Was a school for grown up' - and was in the summer. created in 1874
methodist church
James Eads
African Americans
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
19. Two reasons african americans moved to cities
Jacob Riis
methodist church
Scott Joplin
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
20. The growth of cities: the movement of people from rural areas or elsewhere to the cities
Urbanization
William randolph Hearst
Local Color
Moving people
21. A style of writing and art that tried to depict life just as it was
1 out of 3
Tenements turn into death traps
Realism
Baseball - Football - Basketball
22. A religious organization that organized social activities and helped jewish immigrants: Christians also had a similar organization
Jacob Riis
R.H. Macy
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
YMHA
23. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular
Scott Joplin
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
methodist church
Baseball - Football - Basketball
24. These were tall building that were supported by a lightweight steel frame
Realism
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
Skyscraper
25. These speech and habits of a particular region
African Americans
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Local Color
On the Outskirts of the city
26. Where did the rich live?
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Infant mortality
On the Outskirts of the city
Football
27. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws
Local Color
African Americans
Tenement
William randolph Hearst
28. A variety show that included comedians - acrobats and other performances
Vaudeville
Jane Addams
8 am to 4 pm
Realism
29. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker
Scott Joplin
Building Upward
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
1 out of 3
30. How do Americans spend their leisure time?
Baseball - Football - Basketball
1 out of 3
Yellow Journalism
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
31. Started in London: it spread christian teachings and offered help to the poor
Salvation Army
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Tenements turn into death traps
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
32. An author who wrote realistic stories about the wilderness such as 'White Fang'
Scott Joplin
Jack London
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
33. Where was the first 9 story skyscraper built and why?
Jack London
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Disease/Sickness
34. Planned Central Park in NY
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Nellie Bly
Frederick Law Olmsted
Tenement
35. A six or seven story building that was divided in to smaller buildings
Nellie Bly
Tenement
Jane Addams
Vaudeville
36. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
Parochial
1 out of 5
Jane Addams
Chautauqua society
37. Struggle to survive in slums
Urban poor
Chautauqua society
Baseball
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
38. Writer who exposed poor living conditions in inner cities/slums
James Eads
Tenement
Vaudeville
Jacob Riis
39. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor
Social Gospel
Joseph pulitzer
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Scott Joplin
40. Brookly Bridge was built - First suburbs were created - Traffic and jammed streets.
Building Upward
Dime Novels
1 out of 3
Moving people
41. Publisher who used yellow journalism
Compulsory Education Laws
Baseball
Salvation Army
William randolph Hearst
42. What was the most popular sport in the nation?
1 out of 5
Baseball
Jacob Riis
Chautauqua society
43. What were the conditions of the tenements
Winslow Homer
Building Codes
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
William randolph Hearst
44. A realistic Painter
Nellie Bly
Winslow Homer
1 out of 3
1 out of 5
45. People that wanted to change - pressured city governments
Reformers
Skyscraper
YMHA
methodist church
46. Created first modern mass circulation newspaper (New York World)
Joseph pulitzer
Compulsory Education Laws
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Reformers
47. One Big Urban problem
Jacob Riis
Winslow Homer
R.H. Macy
Tenements turn into death traps
48. These sold many products all under one roof
Disease/Sickness
Social Gospel
Department Store
Building Codes
49. A reformer who founded the hull house
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Jane Addams
Nellie Bly
Dime Novels
50. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)
Realism
On the Outskirts of the city
Disease/Sickness
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping