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Urban Issues
Urban Issues
Rise of Ethnic Neighborhoods
New Forms of Leisure
5.01 ?'s
100
Raises or lowers things to different levels
What is the Elevator?
100
Allows people to verbally talk over long distances.
What is the function of the telephone?
100
The policy protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
100
Electric, or manual machine with keys for producing print characters on paper
What is the typewriter?
100
best definition for a telephone is...
What is an instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance, specifically one in which sound is converted into electrical impulses for transmission?
200
Alexander Graham Bell
What is a scientist, inventor,engineer,and innovator who invented the first practical telephone?
200
A factory or workshop where manual workers are employed with very low wages for long hours.
What is a Sweatshop?
200
Reform instituions for large crowds to improve the lives of poverished people.
What is Settlement Houses?
200
Any sport in which spectators regularly attended all matches,games,meets,or tournements.
What is Spectator Sports?
200
Conditions in a sweatshop were considered to be...
What is Unacceptably difficult or dangerous?
300
Thomas Edison
What is the American inventor and business who invented the first practical electric lightbulb?
300
The condition of being urbanized
What is urbanization?
300
A condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain the cultural differences
What is Cultural Pluralism?
300
Areas that are specific to attractions, rides, games, and leisure for large crowds.
What is Amusement Park?
300
The island that was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
400
Different cultures "melting together" to create one common culture
What is the melting pot theory?
400
Feeling and experience by someone who is suddenly subjected to unfamiliar culture
What is Culture Shock?
400
Allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and congress to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
Landscape Architect
What is Frederick Olmstead?
400
The historical significance of spectator sports...
What is they provided entertainment for Americans and created rivalries?
500
Law that required every house to have a window in each room.
What is the Dumbbell Tenements?
500
New York Photographer that used his photography to help impoverished new Yorkers.
What is Jacob Riis?
500
U.S. immigration center from 1892 to 1954
What is Ellis Island?
500
A public form of transportation that runs on rails and operates along public streets.
What is electric trolley?
500
The form of entertainment that Americans sought for during the Golden Age
What is amusement parks?