Vocab
Expanding Education
A Nation of Readers
Leisure and the Arts
Random
100
Originally, an agricultural college established as a result of the 1862 Morrill Act that gave states larger amounts of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education.
What is land-grant college?
100
___________ opportunities were extended to many more Americans, as the system of public schools and colleges expanded.
What is Educational?
100
With the help from _______ ________ every state in the Union established free public libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
The most popular spectator sport in America was ________.
What is baseball?
100
A way of writing that described the way people lived.
What is realism?
200
Art or literature focused on a particular region of the country.
What is regionalism?
200
True or False? Despite the huge increase of public high schools, many teenagers did not attend high school.
What is true?
200
Mark Twain was a realist and a _________.
What is a regionalist?
200
True or False? Another popular spectator sport was soccer.
What is false?
200
Watching a following sports.
What is spectator sport?
300
Stage entertainment made up of various acts such as dancing, singing, comedy, and magic shows.
What is vaudeville?
300
The leading spokesperson for progressive education was _________ _________.
Who is John Dewey?
300
True or False? John Pulitzer purchased the newspaper, The New York World.
What is True?
300
The first college football game was between Rutgers and _______ in 1869.
What is Princeton?
300
A type of music that was related to Jazz music.
What is Ragtime music?
400
American music developed from ragtime and blues with African rhythms.
What is Jazz?
400
In 1896________ ___________ __________'s reasearch transformed agriculture in the South
Who George Washington Carver?
400
In 1895 the New York Morning Journal was purchased by ________ _________ _______.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
400
Theaters were called _________ because they charged five cents to see short films.
What is nickelodeon?
400
The majority of High School students were ____ because _____ were working to support their families.
What is girls? What is boys?
500
Writing which exaggerates sensational, dramatic, and gruesome events to attract readers, named for stories that were popular during the late 1800s; a type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
500
In 1914 more than __% of children were enrolled in school.
What is 80%?
500
African Americans started over ____ newspapers between 1865 and 1900.
What is 1,000?
500
African American musicians, in ______ ______, developed a new kind of music called jazz.
What is New Orleans?
500
Inexpensive paperbacks arrived in the _______.
What is the 1800s?