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