Show:
Educate Me
City Dwellers
Potpourri
Vocabulary
The Arts
100
This type class Americans adopted from the Germans.
What is Kindergarten?
100
This is why farmers migrated to the cities.
What is jobs, money and a better life?
100
These type of building were built to conserve space.
What is a skyscraper?
100
This is the movement of farmers to cities.
What is urbanization?
100
This type of journalism led critics to complain about the types of news story being covered.
What is yellow journalism?
200
This had the strongest affect on the growth of public education after the Civil War.
What are compulsory education laws?
200
This type of entertainment MOST appealed to the Middle Class.
What is Vaudeville?
200
These are inventions contributed to the building boom in the late 1800's. Give three.
What are the subway, elevated railroad, electric streetcar, public parks, elevators, bridges?
200
These are organized attacks on Jewish villages in Russia.
What are pogroms?
200
This is how newspapers attracted women readers and what did it not include.
What is they added sections containing topics of interest (homemaking) and excluded topics about women's rights?
300
Compulsory education state that children must....
What is attend school?
300
These community centers (aka Hull House) offered services for the poor.
What are settlement houses.
300
This act prevented a national group from entering the United States and who did it exclude?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This is a movement to encourage the wealthy to help the poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
300
These are three factors that led to the increasing number of newspaper readers.
What is to read about current events, more educated population & growth of cities?
400
This is why more people were buying newspapers in the late 1800's.
What is a more educated/literate society?
400
This is how one would describe settlement patterns of immigrants to the United States in the 1860 to 1890.
What is most new immigrants settled in cities?
400
These are some of the problems cities faced in the late 1800's (name two).
What are crime, pollution, overcrowding, etc?
400
This is a reference to the speech and habits of a particular region.
What is local color?
400
This is the way artists and writers were alike in the late 1800's.
What is they focused on realistic subject matter?
500
This is why education reform took place.
What is to educate the work force?
500
Describe the relationship between factory workers and sports in the late 1800's.
What is as factory work got harder people were looking for ways to relax?
500
This is a summer school for Bible teachers.
What is Chautauqua Society?
500
This is a variety show that includes different forms of entertainment.
What is vaudeville?
500
These are the topics realist writers focused on in the late 1800's.
What is problems of the poor & life of factory workers?