Inventions and Technology
Immigrants
Urbanization
Names You Need to Know
Mix 'n Match
100
What invention (other than steel) made the building of skyscrapers possible?
What are elevators?
100
What were most travel accommodations for immigrants like during the Gilded Age?
Dirty, crowded, unhealthy... in steamships
100
What is the purpose of zoning laws?
To separate functions within a city
100
Name the journalist who called attention to the terrible living conditions in New York City tenements.
Jacob Riis
100
What were some push factors that led immigrants to come to America?
Religious Persecution, Famine, war, poverty
200
What were the first streetcars and trolleys powered by?
Electricity
200
Why did most immigrants come to America? (PULL FACTORS)
Steady supply of industrial jobs
200
Most Midwestern cities were established near what kind of resource?
Water
200
This man wrote inspiring novels about the success stories in America.
Horatio Alger
200
Why were tenements dangerous?
Poor ventilation and sanitation conditions, few windows if there was ever a fire
300
The cost of living decreased after the Civil War because technology made it easier to do what?
Manufacture products
300
Before 1870, most immigrants were from where, and what kind of religion did they practice?
From Western Europe; Protestant
300
What is mass transit?
public system to move large number of people inexpensively
300
He was a sensationalist (blew everything out of proportion) newspaper publisher (he competed against Joseph Pulitzer).
William Randolph Hearst
300
People starting consuming (buying) the same items because of an increase in...
Advertising
400
Who was the inventor of the elevator?
Elisha Otis
400
When an immigrant was processed at Ellis Island, he was checked for legal standing and what else?
Medical conditions
400
How did government help the problems (crime, crowding, filth) caused by rapid urbanization?
Began to offer services such as mass transit and sanitation
400
This famous author coined the term "The Gilded Age" to describe America during the late 1800s.
Mark Twain
400
What does the idea of a "melting pot" mean?
A blend of nationalities that create a single culture
500
Would immigrants spend more time at Ellis Island or Angel Island?
Angel
500
What places offer Americanization programs to immigrants to teach them how to read and write English (and other American culture traits)?
Settlement Houses
500
This guy teaches a U.S. history course in room 203 at Portage High School in Portage, IN.
Mr. Mundt
500
Why did "new immigrants" receive more resistance than "old immigrants"?
They were from Eastern Europe and were Catholic and Jewish.
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