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