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