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