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What is a residential area on the outskirts of a city?
What is a suburb
The natives lived on these grasslands
What is Great plains
A pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world’s first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
Who is Thomas Alva Edison
This was a variety show that included comedians, acrobats and song-and-dance shows
What is Vaudeville
A large organization made up of many different unions?bent?
What is the American Federation of Labor
Define Lode:
a rich vein of gold or silver
Sioux and Cheyenne are these kind of tribes
What is nomadic tribes
Invented the typewriter in 1867
Who is Christopher Sholes
The movement of the population from the farms to the cities
What is Urbanization
Name the reason why many states improved public school education?
As industry grew - employers needed an educated workforce
Define Vigilant:
An organized group of self-appointed law enforcers
In 1598, the Spanish brought these to New Mexico
What is horses and guns?
These two people invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson
Name two changes to urban cities in the late 1800s
Immigrants came people moved from the farms overcrowding and dirty conditions skyscrapers sports teams entertainment department stores
A railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast?
What is transcontinental railroad
Define Yellow Journalism:
Newspapers printed scandals, crime stories and gossip
In 1700s, these animals were hunted by the Natives
What are the buffalos
Invented the sewing machine
Small apartment with no windows, no heat and no indoor bathrooms are called?
What is a tenement
These two brothers were the first in flight
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright
This the process of holding onto Older traditions while adapting to a new culture
What is Acculturation
This Native dance was for preaching goals of cleaning lives
What is Ghost dance
Invented portland cement
Who is Joseph Aspdin
The first skyscraper was built where and when?
what is Chicago in 1885
Ask another team a question from the chapters? You must know the correct answer to get the points
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