Inventions and Institutions
What did large corporations use as symbols of business prowess in cities?
What are skyscrapers
What genre of music spoke of hard work and heartbreak?
What are the Blues
Who spent over $32.7 million to establish over 1000 libraries in the U.S.?
Who is Andrew Carnegie
What are the areas outside cities, designed with affordable single-family homes, called?
What are the suburbs
What movement called for more parks in cities and advocated for less pollution?
What is the “City Beautiful” Movement
What replaced gas-powered streetlights and lamps?
What is electricity
What was New York’s most famous Amusement Park?
What is Coney Island
What was the nickname Theodore Roosevelt gave to investigative journalists who wrote exposés on political scandals and industrial abuses?
Who are muckrakers
Where were the most prominent cities located near?
What are seaports
What was the reform movement that aimed to help the poor and clean up the city to combat the effects of industrialization?
What is progressivism
What type of cable cars appeared in the 1870s? (Hint: think of what powered them)
What are steam-driven/steam-powered cable cars
What place offered short films for a nickel entry fee?
What are nickelodeons
Who was the African American trumpet player who introduced the genre of Blues?
Who is W.C. Handy
What was the name of the buildings that housed twenty or more families in cramped, horrible living conditions?
What are tenements
What “league” utilized business-modeled politics and elected small councils with a manager to operate city affairs?
What is the National Municipal League
What was the name of the school dedicated to the design of skyscrapers?
What is Chicago School
“___ Gardens” were places where men hung out and producers tested what music was popular to publish.
What are Beer Gardens
Who invented the Electric Trolly System in 1887?
Who is Frank Sprague
What was the name of the organizations formed by members of an ethnic immigrant group that pooled funds and aided one another in emergencies?
What are mutual benefit societies
What political party (formed in 1891) wanted to restore democracy by eliminating the corrupt alliances between businesses and government?
What is the People's Party
What institutions were erected by the elite society?
What are libraries and museums
What theater could customers enter at any time and watch a continuous sequence of musical acts, skits, magic shows, etc.?
What is the Vaudeville Theater
What sought to elevate African American music by composing and performing ragtime?
Who is Scott Joplin
What were race riots?
What are bands of white men that attacked African Americans on account of false “negro crimes” or random street altercations
What were political machines?
What are complex hierarchical party organizations that kept power through political affiliations and personal relationships with voters