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A Nation Of Readers
Art, Music, and Leisure
100
Because of lower pay
Why did employers want to hire immigrants?
100
Literature that shows how things really are.
What is realism?
100
4 years.
How long did most students stay in school?
100
Andrew Carnegie.
Who donated more than $30 million to found more than 2,000 libraries around the world?
100
European influence.
For most of 1800's artist and musicians reflected a?
200
Cities and employers.
Who offered jobs?
200
Writing that is focused on a particular region of the country.
What is regionalism?
200
He thought that children should have classes on their interests instead of memorizing facts.
What did John Dewey think about education?
200
Joseph Pulitzer.
Who grabbed readers attention with the New York World?
200
Their own style.
After the Civil War what did the Americans start to develop?
300
They would get fired and some would try to sew the company.
What would happen if they got hurt on the job?
300
Music with complex rhythms, popular in the 1900s.
What is ragtime?
300
More than 1 million.
How many people read the World?
300
Realist themes.
What did the American painters pursue?
400
The immigrants would drive down lower wages
What did Americans fear that immagrants would do.
400
Attracting readers by exaggerating the dramatic or gruesome stories.
What is yellow journalism?
400
40% of college students were women.
What was the gender of 40% of college students?
400
700 to 5,000.
In 1865 and 1900 the number of magazines rose from?
400
Jazz.
What did African American musicians in New Orleans develop?
500
To hire immagrants
Why were employers happy?
500
Variety of shows that included dancing, sining, comedy, and magic acts.
What is vaudeville?
500
Readers for Newspapers.
What did the growing cities provide?
500
Work songs, gospel, spirituals, and African rhythms.
Jazz combined elements of?
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