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