The Price of Diversity: Racial, Ethnic, & Religious Tensions
A Prism for Identity & The Diversity of the Hub
100
Pittsburgh is located in what county?
What is Allegheny
100
What was Pennsylvania's most important export?
What is its people.
100
What created Pennsylvania's network of transportation?
What is canals, railroads, and wagon trails.
100
What major cities in Pennsylvania was popular with African Americans?
What is Columbia, Philadelphia, & Pittsburgh.
100
What ways could people and freight move from the hinterland to the urban centers?
What is canals, railroads, and wagon trails.
200
What role did Erie, Pa play during the war of 1812?
What is supplied the military with ships, cannons, and soldiers.
200
Pennsylvania rewrote its constitution in 1790 and what other year?
What is 1838
200
What was the normal cargo for barges in this period of Pennsylvania history?
What is coal, grain, and raw materials.
200
What violent event that involved a fugitive slave, his previous master, and master's spies?
What is Christiana Riot of 1851.
200
Evergreen Hamlet, Oneida Community, Brook Farm, Sylvania Association, & Harmony Society are all examples of what?
What is Communal Society.
300
How did Pennsylvania's wilderness assist entrepreneurs in making their wealth?
What is the vast amount of resources.
300
Services of questionable value such as brothels, gambling halls, ect. were often placed where?
What is the edge of town.
300
What fuel source did most Pennsylvanians use to heat their houses in the early 1800's?
What is wood.
300
Why did white individuals turn against African Americans in the major cities?
What is competition for jobs.
300
What revolutionary military encampment that was turned into one of Pennsylvania's first historical sites?
What is Valley Forge
400
Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?
He was from France and came to the United States to observe its prison system.
400
What contributed to the increase in alcohol related deaths?
What is unemployment and increase in crime.
400
What city bypassed Philadelphia in manufacturing and trading with Europe?
What is New York City.
400
Why did the number of African Americans immigrating to Pennsylvania level off and even decline?
What is violent towards them increased and Pennsylvania was no longer a place they could live without punishment.
400
What were the reasons (two) Alexis de Tocqueville wanted to visit Pennsylvania?
What is
Eastern State Penitentiary (Cherry Hill)
Western State Penitentiary (Allegheny County)
500
Why was Pittsburgh important for westward expansion?
It was the gateway to the western states.
500
Where was petroleum first discovered in Pennsylvania?
What is Titusville, Pennsylvania.
500
Why was the Union Canal important?
What is it connected the Schuylkill River and the Susquehanna River.
500
What religion was responsible for generating environment in Pennsylvania that was conducive for African Americans to come to the major cities of Pennsylvania?
What is Quaker
500
Name three of the major industries in Pennsylvania during 1800-1850?
What is iron, textiles, chemicals, meatpacking, glassmaking, petroleum processing, boot making, sugar-refining, manufacturing of rifles, and ropes.