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