The poorest accommodations on ships carrying immigrants to the United States.
What is steerage?
100
Inventor of the elevator?
Who is Elisha Otis?
100
A type of variety show that featured a wide assortment of short performances.
What is vaudeville?
100
The free and public spending of great wealth in order to impress others.
What is conspicuous consumption?
100
Uprising by U.S. settlers in California against Mexican rule when they declared an independent republic.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
200
Irish immigrant and leader of the Workingmen's Party, which encouraged anti-Chinese sentiments in California during the 1870s.
Who is Dennis Kearny?
200
Public transportation, including subways, electric commuter trains, and trolleys.
What is mass transit?
200
A type of music created by Africa American musicians, performed primarily on the piano.
What is ragtime?
200
In the late 1800s, accountants, clerks, engineers, managers, and salespeople became part of this.
What is the growing middle class?
200
Belief that the United States should extend its territory to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest destiny?
300
Charitable organizations that helped immigrants cope with problems.
What is benevolent societies?
300
Residential neighborhoods and towns on the outskirts of cities.
What is suburbs?
300
Much of the literature read by the nouveau riche in the late 1800s reflected the social standards of this culture.
What is British Victorian culture?
300
What was the primary goal of the Social Gospel movement?
What is to apply Christian principles to social problems?
300
Religious group led by Brigham Young that settled in Utah.
What is the Mormons?
400
The Immigration Restriction League tried unsuccessfully to impose this on all immigrants.
What is a literacy test?
400
Community service centers that offered education, skills training, and cultural events to people living in poor neighborhoods.
What is settlement houses?
400
What was the primary goal of the compulsory educations laws?
What is to require parents to send their children to school?
400
This was one of the few sports played during the Victorian era in which women's participation was encouraged.
What is basketball?
400
Marked the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
Most of these immigrants came from places like Italy, Poland, Russia, and Hungary.
What is new immigrants?
500
Social reformer who helped found settlement houses and promoted women's suffrage.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
The term yellow journalism refers to...
What is a style of reporting that was sensationalistic?
500
Magazines like Godey's Lady's Book and The Ladies' Home Journal encouraged American women to leave their role as homemaker and strive to succeed in the business world.
What is False?
500
Abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.