Immigrants
People who share a common culture or heritage.
What is an ethnic group?
The residential area outside the city center.
What is a suburb?
These were funded by the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890?
What were land-grant colleges?
A type of journalism based on sensational stories.
What is yellow journalism?
A type of theatrical show with dancing, singing, comedy, and magic acts.
What is vaudeville?
During the early 1900s, most immigrants to the west went through the processing center here.
What is Angel Island?
He put up the first skyscraper in this city?
Who was William LeBaron Jenney? What was Chicago?
The kind of education advocated for by John Dewey.
What is progressive education?
This approach to literature is based on the lives of ordinary people.
What is realism?
This was the most popular sport in America during the early 1900s?
What is baseball?
"New" immigrants flooded in from these two parts/regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
Three characteristics of life in tenements?
What are overcrowded, rundown, no hot water, one shared toilet and tap, dirty, and in poor neighborhoods?
Two prominent African Americans who worked at the Tuskegee Institute.
Who were Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver?
Two new styles of music that developed in the late 1800s through early 1900s.
What were jazz and ragtime?
Why was this era in the late 1800s and early 1900s in America called the Gilded Age?
What is the wealthy "covered up" the suffering of poor people?
These two places were especially important to immigrants in recreating some aspects of their former lives.
What were churches and synagogues?
Three "modern" forms of urban transportation from 1865-1914.
What were cable-cars, trolley cars, subways, and streetcars?
Andrew Carnegie made this pledge that dramatically improved education in America.
What is to build a library in any city that would pay to run it?
The two most prominent newspaper publishers in the late 1800s.
Who were Joseph Pullitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
Two push factors and two pull factor that caused immigrants to leave their countries from 1865-1914.
What are the push factors of crop failure, persecution, loss of a job, economic hardship, and overcrowding?
What are pull factors of a job, freedom, wealth, hope, and land?
Three anti-immigrant laws that happened from 1882-1907.
What were the Chinese Exclusion Act, the extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1892 and 1902, the limitation of Japanese in 1907, and literacy tests?
Three factors that led to the growth of cities in America from 1865-1914?
What were immigration, farm machinery replacing farming jobs, African Americans moving to Northern cities, and railroads feeding growth?
Three prominent women's colleges in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
What are Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr?
Four realist or regionalist authors during this era.
Who were Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Stephen Crane, and Jack London?
Three U.S. cities that experienced tremendous growth due to railroads, seaports, and resources.
What are Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and New York?