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