Terms
What is a philosophy?
Idea or belief
What did Americans watch for entertainment?
Sports (baseball, football, basketball)
Who purchased New York World newspaper?
Joseph Pulitzer
John Dewey argued that education should be geared towards
Student interests, problems and concerns.
What are Land-grant colleges?
Government provided land for education
What are Nickelodeons?
Short films
Carnegie along with efforts from the government established
free libraries
Who wrote about city slums? (Maggie, The Red Badge of Courage)
Stephen Crane
What is Yellow Journalism?
Exaggerating dramatic or gruesome aspects of stories
Which genre of music did African American musicians in New Orleans develop?
Jazz / Ragtime
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T Washington
Jack London, Edith Wharton, Paul Laurence Dunbar all wrote about
Reservations were Isolated or...
cut off from tribal traditions
All of these describe what genre of art? Human anatomy, warm family scenes, cowhands and Native Americans
Realist themes
Where was George Washington Carver a professor?
Tuskegee Institute
New York Morning Journal was written by
William Randolph Hearst
What is a Vaudeville?
A variety shows with dancing, singing, comedy and magic acts
Impressionist art used...
Play of light, color and patterns
Who was the author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
Howard and Hampton were schools of higher education for
African Americans