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100
A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
100
These are people who come from another country and live in America.
What are immigrants?
100
Middle Class folks lived here.
What are suburbs?
100
Popular music in the early 1900's.
What is ragtime?
100
States were given land that could be sold to raise money for education. (Vocab term).
What is the Morrill Act or Land-Grant Colleges.
200
Coated in a thin layer of gold, suggesting falseness underneath the surface.
What is the Gilded Age?
200
These people were rude to immigrants and wanted America to be only those who were born here.
Who are Nativists?
200
Low class immigrants lived in cramped __________ , in ___________, or run down parts of the city.
What are tenements and slums?
200
Variety shows with dancing, singing, comedy, and magic acts.
What is vaudeville?
200
This new philosophy of education emphasized teaching values and morals as well as hands-on activities rather than memorization of facts.
What is "Progressive Education"?
300
Cramped quarters beneath the deck of a ship.
What is steerage?
300
He photographed people living in tenements and slums in order to promote change.
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from ______________ to _______________.
What is the rural south and the urban north?
300
The most popular spectator sport in America back in the early 1900's.
What is baseball?
300
Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and Wellesley were colleges that were founded for which group of people?
Who are women?
400
To blend into a new place.
What is assimilate?
400
Founder of Chicago's Hull House, one of America's first settlement houses.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
This city grew larger and faster than any other city in America.
What is New York City?
400
The first movie theaters were developed by ____________ and nicknamed ____________.
Who is Thomas Edison and 'Nickelodeons' (they charged 5 cents).
400
Tuskegee, Howard, and Hampton Institute were founded for which group of Americans?
Who are African Americans?
500
Writing that stretched the truth in order to gain more readers.
What is "Yellow Journalism"?
500
The designer of Central Park in New York City.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
500
The Statue of Liberty almost didn't go to New York. Name 2 other American cities that almost claimed it.
What are Philadelphia and Boston?
500
Basketball was invented in ______________, by Dr. ____________ in the 1890's.
What is Springfield, Massachusetts and James Naismith?
500
The Compulsory Education Act required this.
What is children's attendance at school.