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