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