What were the steel fame buildings called?
Skyscrapers
When did the murder rate increase?
1880 - 1900
What term did Twain and Warner's use?
Glided Age
What did Henry George publish?
Progress and Poverty
What was Mark Twain's real name ?
Samuel Clemens
What moved 70 percent of Urban traffic?
Horse cars, railroad car pulled by horses
What is a political machine?
an informal political group designed to gain and keep power.
What was the strongest beliefs of the era?
Individualism
What did the economics argue about?
George's flawed analysis
What did people spend on ?
Entertainment and recreation
Why did the middle class move away from the central city?
To escape crime and pollution, and to afford larger homes.
What did party bosses do?
Provided necessities
What is another powerful Idea of the era
Social Darwinism
What was the settlement house ?
A movement that began of social gospel movement
What did African american composers become?
King of Ragtime
Where did Urban working class spent their lives in?
In crowded tenements
What did party bosses also control?
the city's finance
What did Herbert Spencer apply in Darwin's theory?
Evolution and natural section of human society
What did naturalist literature do?
What did Musicians area in New York become known as ?
Tin Pan Alley's
What jobs did white native-born women have that other women didn't?
Who were the opponents of political machines?
Cartoonist Thomas Nast
What should Americans engage in?
Philanthropy
What did industrial America need?
More trained and educated workers
What did Tin Pan Alley do ?
Created a positive impact on America, made possible careers for musicians