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