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