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Cities And American Culture
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1. How do Americans spend their leisure time?
Urbanization
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Vaudeville
Building Upward
2. A religious organization that organized social activities and helped jewish immigrants: Christians also had a similar organization
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Urban poor
YMHA
Department Store
3. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)
Nellie Bly
Local Color
Disease/Sickness
Building Upward
4. Built and designed a 3 arches across Mississippi river at St. Louis
Vaudeville
James Eads
Yellow Journalism
William randolph Hearst
5. laws that set standards for construction and safety
Baseball
Frederick Law Olmsted
Building Codes
Tenement
6. An author who wrote realistic stories about the wilderness such as 'White Fang'
Nellie Bly
1 out of 5
James Eads
Jack London
7. Struggle to survive in slums
Reformers
8 am to 4 pm
Urban poor
Baseball
8. Where did the rich live?
Urban poor
Reformers
On the Outskirts of the city
Football
9. These sold many products all under one roof
Reformers
Building Codes
Department Store
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
10. Two reasons african americans moved to cities
YMHA
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
African Americans
Social Gospel
11. What grew from European Soccer?
Compulsory Education Laws
James Eads
Football
Skyscraper
12. When did Urbanization begin?
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13. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
1 out of 5
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Realism
Jacob Riis
14. Brookly Bridge was built - First suburbs were created - Traffic and jammed streets.
Jane Addams
Moving people
Reformers
African Americans
15. Who made up the middle class?
Jane Addams
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
16. Created first modern mass circulation newspaper (New York World)
African Americans
Reformers
Early 1800's
Joseph pulitzer
17. A style of writing and art that tried to depict life just as it was
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Local Color
Realism
18. The growth of cities: the movement of people from rural areas or elsewhere to the cities
Urbanization
Dime Novels
Infant mortality
On the Outskirts of the city
19. What did the urban middle class depend on?
African Americans
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
William randolph Hearst
20. A variety show that included comedians - acrobats and other performances
Jack London
Vaudeville
Parochial
Joseph pulitzer
21. Started in London: it spread christian teachings and offered help to the poor
James Eads
African Americans
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Salvation Army
22. A reformer who founded the hull house
Jane Addams
1 out of 5
R.H. Macy
Football
23. MLB banned these players when it started
Local Color
R.H. Macy
Urbanization
African Americans
24. Planned Central Park in NY
Frederick Law Olmsted
Compulsory Education Laws
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Jack London
25. A six or seven story building that was divided in to smaller buildings
R.H. Macy
Tenement
Building Codes
Compulsory Education Laws
26. A nine story department store built in 1902
1 out of 5
R.H. Macy
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
James Eads
27. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular
1 out of 5
YMHA
Scott Joplin
Infant mortality
28. How did a Building boom changes american cities
Football
Social Gospel
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Tenement
29. Where was the first subway built in 1897
Boston
Jane Addams
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
methodist church
30. A realistic Painter
Urban poor
African Americans
methodist church
Winslow Homer
31. One Big Urban problem
Salvation Army
Chautauqua society
Tenements turn into death traps
Baseball
32. Publisher who used yellow journalism
methodist church
Yellow Journalism
William randolph Hearst
African Americans
33. These were tall building that were supported by a lightweight steel frame
Realism
Reformers
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Skyscraper
34. In 1890 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
1 out of 3
Football
1 out of 5
Department Store
35. Sent out traveling groups to educate people
Chautauqua society
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
Reformers
Nellie Bly
36. Writer who exposed poor living conditions in inner cities/slums
William randolph Hearst
Yellow Journalism
Realism
Jacob Riis
37. What are the 3 r's?
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38. People that wanted to change - pressured city governments
Reformers
Urbanization
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Tenements turn into death traps
39. A type of school that is sponsored by the Church
Building Upward
Disease/Sickness
Salvation Army
Parochial
40. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker
Urbanization
Building Upward
African Americans
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
41. High rates of babies dying
Jack London
Building Codes
Infant mortality
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
42. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories
Dime Novels
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
Chautauqua society
James Eads
43. Writer who used local color
Frederick Law Olmsted
methodist church
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Scott Joplin
44. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws
Dime Novels
James Eads
African Americans
Frederick Law Olmsted
45. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Social Gospel
Building Upward
On the Outskirts of the city
46. How long is a typical school day?
R.H. Macy
8 am to 4 pm
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Department Store
47. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals
Disease/Sickness
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
Nellie Bly
Scott Joplin
48. These speech and habits of a particular region
On the Outskirts of the city
Local Color
Winslow Homer
African Americans
49. What was the most popular sport in the nation?
1 out of 3
Baseball
African Americans
YMHA
50. News reporting that is often biased or false; it also sensationalized headlines and stories to boost sales
Yellow Journalism
Building Codes
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
On the Outskirts of the city
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