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Cities And American Culture
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1. Sent out traveling groups to educate people
Chautauqua society
Infant mortality
Building Upward
Tenements turn into death traps
2. A type of school that is sponsored by the Church
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Parochial
YMHA
Football
3. Was a school for grown up' - and was in the summer. created in 1874
YMHA
methodist church
William randolph Hearst
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
4. A nine story department store built in 1902
R.H. Macy
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Tenements turn into death traps
African Americans
5. Planned Central Park in NY
Vaudeville
Frederick Law Olmsted
Baseball
On the Outskirts of the city
6. When did Urbanization begin?
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7. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws
Skyscraper
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
African Americans
8. What are the 3 r's?
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9. How do Americans spend their leisure time?
R.H. Macy
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Early 1800's
Boston
10. A reformer who founded the hull house
Tenements turn into death traps
Jane Addams
Skyscraper
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
11. These speech and habits of a particular region
Jane Addams
Local Color
1 out of 3
R.H. Macy
12. In 1890 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
Yellow Journalism
Infant mortality
Nellie Bly
1 out of 3
13. A six or seven story building that was divided in to smaller buildings
Boston
Tenement
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Yellow Journalism
14. Where was the first 9 story skyscraper built and why?
Baseball
Realism
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
Building Codes
15. How did a Building boom changes american cities
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Early 1800's
On the Outskirts of the city
Infant mortality
16. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?
African Americans
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
1 out of 5
Realism
17. Started in London: it spread christian teachings and offered help to the poor
Baseball
methodist church
Dime Novels
Salvation Army
18. Who made up the middle class?
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Reformers
Urbanization
Building Codes
19. Brookly Bridge was built - First suburbs were created - Traffic and jammed streets.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Winslow Homer
Moving people
Realism
20. A style of writing and art that tried to depict life just as it was
Realism
Nellie Bly
On the Outskirts of the city
1 out of 5
21. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular
Department Store
Salvation Army
Boston
Scott Joplin
22. What was the most popular sport in the nation?
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Football
Baseball
Department Store
23. Writer who used local color
Urbanization
Compulsory Education Laws
Tenement
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
24. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)
Frederick Law Olmsted
Football
Disease/Sickness
Jacob Riis
25. What grew from European Soccer?
Reformers
Baseball - Football - Basketball
Yellow Journalism
Football
26. What did the urban middle class depend on?
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Parochial
Skyscraper
1 out of 5
27. Where was the first subway built in 1897
Urban poor
Local Color
Boston
Jack London
28. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor
Boston
Scott Joplin
Vaudeville
Social Gospel
29. How long is a typical school day?
Infant mortality
1 out of 3
8 am to 4 pm
Baseball
30. MLB banned these players when it started
Tenement
Frederick Law Olmsted
African Americans
Building Codes
31. A variety show that included comedians - acrobats and other performances
Vaudeville
Leisure activities and clubs/organizations
Department Store
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
32. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker
1 out of 3
Building Upward
Compulsory Education Laws
Social Gospel
33. Struggle to survive in slums
8 am to 4 pm
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Urban poor
Disease/Sickness
34. Built and designed a 3 arches across Mississippi river at St. Louis
YMHA
James Eads
Social Gospel
methodist church
35. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories
Dime Novels
Chicago as a result of the Chicago fire of 1885
1 out of 3
Skyscraper
36. These required children to attend School: These were passed mainly in the north.
Compulsory Education Laws
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Parochial
Salvation Army
37. A realistic Painter
James Eads
methodist church
Winslow Homer
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
38. Publisher who used yellow journalism
Salvation Army
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
William randolph Hearst
Vaudeville
39. A religious organization that organized social activities and helped jewish immigrants: Christians also had a similar organization
1 out of 5
Urban poor
8 am to 4 pm
YMHA
40. High rates of babies dying
Joseph pulitzer
Infant mortality
Building Codes
1 out of 3
41. Two reasons african americans moved to cities
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Frederick Law Olmsted
Seek a better life (job) - Escape predjudice
Salvation Army
42. The growth of cities: the movement of people from rural areas or elsewhere to the cities
Boston
William randolph Hearst
Urbanization
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
43. One Big Urban problem
Tenements turn into death traps
Infant mortality
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
Department Store
44. These sold many products all under one roof
Building Upward - Moving People - Public Parks & Shopping
Winslow Homer
Jacob Riis
Department Store
45. What were the conditions of the tenements
Building Codes
1 out of 3
Joseph pulitzer
No windows - heat - indoor bathrooms
46. Writer who exposed poor living conditions in inner cities/slums
Salvation Army
Jacob Riis
Nellie Bly
Compulsory Education Laws
47. Where did the rich live?
Reformers
On the Outskirts of the city
Tenements turn into death traps
William randolph Hearst
48. laws that set standards for construction and safety
Local Color
Jane Addams
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
Building Codes
49. News reporting that is often biased or false; it also sensationalized headlines and stories to boost sales
reading - rhythmic - and 'riting
YMHA
Yellow Journalism
Doctors - Lawyers - Business owners and skilled laborers
50. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals
Parochial
Nellie Bly
1 out of 5
Tenement
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