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Cities And American Culture
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How do Americans spend their leisure time?
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Disease/Sickness
Yellow Journalism
Tenements turn into death traps
2. One Big Urban problem
William randolph Hearst
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Tenements turn into death traps
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
3. An author who wrote realistic stories about the wilderness such as 'White Fang'
Early 1800's
Jack London
Urbanization
Vaudeville
4. High rates of babies dying
Boston
Infant mortality
8 am to 4 pm
African Americans
5. What were the conditions of the tenements
Urbanization
Chautauqua society
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Nellie Bly
6. Started in London: it spread christian teachings and offered help to the poor
Salvation Army
African Americans
Urban poor
1 out of 3
7. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular
Tenements turn into death traps
Scott Joplin
1 out of 3
Social Gospel
8. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws
Joseph pulitzer
Compulsory Education Laws
African Americans
Jane Addams
9. A variety show that included comedians - acrobats and other performances
Vaudeville
1 out of 3
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Football
10. Where was the first 9 story skyscraper built and why?
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Boston
Scott Joplin
11. MLB banned these players when it started
8 am to 4 pm
Disease/Sickness
Department Store
African Americans
12. How long is a typical school day?
8 am to 4 pm
William randolph Hearst
methodist church
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
13. Publisher who used yellow journalism
Frederick Law Olmsted
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
R.H. Macy
William randolph Hearst
14. Who made up the middle class?
Scott Joplin
Realism
Nellie Bly
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
15. Planned Central Park in NY
Boston
Frederick Law Olmsted
James Eads
1 out of 5
16. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker
Building Upward
Boston
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
17. Brookly Bridge was built - First suburbs were created - Traffic and jammed streets.
methodist church
Local Color
African Americans
Moving people
18. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
Urbanization
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
1 out of 5
Football
19. In 1890 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
Disease/Sickness
1 out of 5
Building Codes
1 out of 3
20. How did a Building boom changes american cities
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
African Americans
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
21. These sold many products all under one roof
Joseph pulitzer
Department Store
Building Codes
Football
22. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories
Early 1800's
Dime Novels
James Eads
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
23. A type of school that is sponsored by the Church
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Parochial
Urban poor
8 am to 4 pm
24. When did Urbanization begin?
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25. laws that set standards for construction and safety
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Chautauqua society
Building Codes
African Americans
26. These required children to attend School: These were passed mainly in the north.
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
methodist church
Compulsory Education Laws
Moving people
27. Was a school for grown up' - and was in the summer. created in 1874
Frederick Law Olmsted
On the Outskirts of the city
methodist church
Parochial
28. What did the urban middle class depend on?
Local Color
Moving people
Department Store
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
29. What was the most popular sport in the nation?
8 am to 4 pm
Baseball
Tenement
Building Upward
30. These were tall building that were supported by a lightweight steel frame
Early 1800's
8 am to 4 pm
Joseph pulitzer
Skyscraper
31. Created first modern mass circulation newspaper (New York World)
Football
Social Gospel
Urbanization
Joseph pulitzer
32. Writer who exposed poor living conditions in inner cities/slums
Jacob Riis
R.H. Macy
Tenements turn into death traps
Baseball - Football - Basketball
33. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor
Baseball
Disease/Sickness
Reformers
Social Gospel
34. A nine story department store built in 1902
Vaudeville
Urban poor
R.H. Macy
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
35. These speech and habits of a particular region
Local Color
William randolph Hearst
On the Outskirts of the city
Compulsory Education Laws
36. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Compulsory Education Laws
Nellie Bly
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
37. Where did the rich live?
8 am to 4 pm
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Joseph pulitzer
On the Outskirts of the city
38. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)
Vaudeville
African Americans
Disease/Sickness
Tenement
39. Two reasons african americans moved to cities
1 out of 3
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Jane Addams
Dime Novels
40. A realistic Painter
1 out of 5
Winslow Homer
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
R.H. Macy
41. Sent out traveling groups to educate people
Chautauqua society
James Eads
Urbanization
1 out of 5
42. Writer who used local color
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Social Gospel
Dime Novels
Compulsory Education Laws
43. Built and designed a 3 arches across Mississippi river at St. Louis
James Eads
Moving people
William randolph Hearst
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
44. What grew from European Soccer?
Football
Social Gospel
Compulsory Education Laws
Tenement
45. Struggle to survive in slums
Football
Dime Novels
Urban poor
Disease/Sickness
46. A religious organization that organized social activities and helped jewish immigrants: Christians also had a similar organization
Jack London
YMHA
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Boston
47. The growth of cities: the movement of people from rural areas or elsewhere to the cities
Moving people
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Early 1800's
Urbanization
48. What are the 3 r's?
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49. People that wanted to change - pressured city governments
Reformers
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
YMHA
Infant mortality
50. News reporting that is often biased or false; it also sensationalized headlines and stories to boost sales
Frederick Law Olmsted
Yellow Journalism
Jane Addams
Scott Joplin