Population and Living Conditions
What type of housing did many poor families, including immigrants, live in during the late 1800s?
Answer: What are tenements?
What innovation in transportation helped cities grow by allowing people to travel more easily?
Answer: What are streetcars?
What percentage of American children attended school in 1870?
Answer: What is less than 60 percent?
What sport became America's favorite spectator sport by the early 1900s?
Answer: What is baseball?
Paul Laurence Dunbar was best know for this.
What is poetry that was written in a distinctive African American dialect.
By 1910, what percentage of Americans lived in urban areas?
Answer: What is nearly half?
Answer: What is nearly half?
What was a primary industry that developed in Pittsburgh due to its natural resources?
Answer: What is iron and steel manufacturing?
Which educational philosophy emphasized learning through experience rather than memorization?
Answer: What is progressive education?
What form of performance included singing, dancing, and comedy and was popular in theaters?
Answer: What is vaudeville?
A journalistic writing style exaggerating the dramatic or shocking aspects of stories.
What is yellow journalism.
What was one reason many African Americans moved to cities in the early 1900s?
Answer: What is to find better economic opportunities?
In what year was the first World Series played?
Answer: What is 1903?
What was the purpose of the Morrill Act of 1862?
Answer: What is to create land-grant colleges?
Who invented the game of basketball?
Answer: Who is Dr. James Naismith?
Philosophy
What is a set of ideas and beliefs.
What serious problems did rapid urban growth create in cities?
Answer: What are garbage, disease, and crime?
What building style became popular in cities during this time period, symbolizing progress?
Answer: What are skyscrapers?
Which significant African American educator founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Answer: Who is Booker T. Washington?
What musical genre combined work songs and African rhythms, emerging in New Orleans?
Answer: What is jazz?
In 1897, Boston opened the nation's first underground railway, also known as this.
What is subway?
Who were some of the people that worked to improve urban life in cities?
Answer: Who are religious groups, social reformers, and organizations like the American Red Cross?
What type of transportation system used overhead electric cables?
Answer: What are trolley cars?
What was a key factor that limited educational opportunities for African Americans in the South?
Answer: What is segregation?
Name one of the influential American painters who focused on Western themes.
Answer: Who is Frederic Remington?
This helped make Pittsburgh a center for iron and steel manufacturing.
What is Ironore and coalfields?