Immigration Continues, with Some Changes & The Cities
Challenges to the Church & Hunger for Learning
The March of the Mind & Growth of the Press
Post-War Writing
Women's Rights & Amusement
100
What was the growth in American population between 1870 and 1900?
+41,000,000
100
By 1900, how many high schools were there in America?
6,000
100
In newly industrialized America, which subjects became more important in schools?
Science
100
How much money did most of the novels written about the Wild West cost to buy?
a dime; $0.10
100
What two machines helped liberate women?
Switchboards and typewriters
200
By the 1880s, where did most immigrants to the United States come from?
Southern and Eastern Europe (Italians, Croats, Slovaks, Greeks, and Poles)
200
Who was one of the famous public lecturers at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century?
Mark Twain
200
What was the philosophy that emphasized the practical side of thinking?
Pragmatism
200
Who was the American poet who served as a Civil War nurse?
Walt Whitman
200
Who are the people that originally fought to advance the rights of women?
Feminists
300
In 1882 a law was passed banning what people from coming to America?
The Chinese
300
Who, in 1881, started a university to train black people in Alabama?
Booker T. Washington
300
Who contributed $60,000,000 of his own money to the building of public libraries?
Andrew Carnegie
300
Who was the American female poet that only became famous after her death and the discovery of all the poems she had written?
Emily Dickinson
300
What did Susan B. Anthony try to do in 1872 that almost landed her in jail?
Vote
400
What were the first 3 American cities with a population of 1 million people?
New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia
400
Who was the first black man to graduate from Harvard?
W.E.B. Du Bois
400
What is the style of news that includes extreme stories about sex and crime, often committed by famous people?
"sensationalism"
400
What American river deeply inspired Mark Twain,one of America's most famous writers?
the Mississippi river
400
Which state in 1869 first gave women the right to vote?
Wyoming
500
What are the terrible areas of cities where many immigrants and poor lived called?
"Slums"
500
Which law gave government land to states to start "land-grant colleges"?
The Morrill Act of 1862
500
Who was the Hungarian-born journalist tycoon who lead the sensationalist movement? His name is a prestigious prize in America today.
Joseph Pulitzer
500
What book by Mark Twain was praised by Ernest Hemingway as the "one book" that all American literature comes from?
Huckleberry Finn
500
What was the form of entertainment with lower-class jokes and acrobats?
Vaudeville
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