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