Immigration
Booming Cities
City Life
Culture
Education and More Culture
100
These are conditions that drive people from their homes and attract them to new ones.
What is Push and Pull factors?
100
Buildings divided into small apartments and reserved for the poor.
What is tenements?
100
Places like Macy's, JC Penny, etc. were all created during this time.
What is a department store.
100
Invented basketball.
What is James Naismith?
100
He wrote many dime novels.
What is Horatio Alger?
200
Many immigrants first arrived at this place in the United States.
What is Ellis or Angel Island? Bonus: What is the difference between Ellis and Angel Islands?
200
These people tended to live in the central part of cities during this time period.
What is the poor?
200
This invention made life significantly easier in the high rises of the big cities.
What is the elevator?
200
Gave the inspiration for the famous journalism award.
What is Joseph Pulitzer?
200
Samuel Clemens
What is Mark Twain?
300
A group of people who share a common culture.
What is an Ethnic group?
300
During the late 1800's, what was the trend in populations in rural and urban areas?
What is, rural areas once had larger populations but as time passed, city populations grew until they were about 50/50 by 1920.
300
Trolleys, trains, and streetcars.
What is public transportation?
300
Gossip columns.
What is yellow journalism?
300
Style of painting that portrayed real-life images.
What is realism?
400
People wanting to limit immigration.
What is a nativist?
400
She was a reformer who established the Hull House.
What is Jane Addams?
400
This park was created and planned by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1850s.
What is Central Park?
400
Maple leaf rag
What is Scott Joplin?
400
A famous painter from New England who painted scenes from the New England Coast.
What is Winslow Homer?
500
Why is Emma Lazarus's poem titled "Golden Door?"
What is ........The symbol, Golden Door, was used to represent freedom and opportunity in America. The poem referred to the "huddled masses" and "wretched refuse," all phrases with negative connotations. The author tried to say that America will take all types of people in any condition in hopes that they will have a "golden" opportunity in the United States.
500
Give three reforms cities made.
What is building codes, YMCAs/YMHAs, settlement houses, charitable organization
500
What object links Manhattan and Brooklyn?
What is the Brooklyn Bridge.
500
Sketch comedy and other acts.
What is Vaudeville?
500
The name of the last passenger pigeon
What is Martha?
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