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