A Land of Promise
Growth of Cities
Change in Cities
American Culture
Hodge-Podge
100
conditions that drive people to leave their homes
What are push factors
100
An organization that helped the poor in cities
What is Hull House
100
James Naismith
Who invented basketball?
100
Private colleges were built, public high schools were opened, many northern cities made elementary school mandatory
What are some of the ways education expanded?
100
type of writing popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is realism
200
the process of becoming part of another culture
What is assimilation
200
a community center that offered services to the poor in cities
What is a settlement house
200
Frank Sprague
Who is the inventor of the electric streetcar
200
He wrote rags to riches stories
Who is Horatio Alger?
200
A type of sensational writing.
What is yellow journalism
300
finding jobs, learning the language, assimilating
What are some of the problems faced by immigrants
300
Jane Addams
What was the founder of Hull House
300
The first high-rise building was constructed here.
What is Chicago?
300
The New York World
What is the first modern, mass circulated newspaper?
300
Scott Joplin
Who made ragtime popular?
400
England, Ireland, Scandanavia
What is where "old immigrants came from?
400
small apartments where poor people lived
What are tenements?
400
The first baseball game was played here.
What is New York
400
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Who are two newspaper giants?
400
building codes, sanitation, police, fire companies.
What are some of the things city governments began to supply at this time?
500
an act that barred the immigration of a certain group of people for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Day nurseries, organized sports, theater for young people, classes in health care, English lessons.
What are some of the things provided in settlement houses
500
He planned Central Park
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead
500
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who was the first African-American to make a living as a writer?
500
The first Black professional baseball team
What was the Cuban Giants of Long Island
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