This expanding network of transportation fed the growth of the cities.
What is railroads?
100
The residential areas outside of city centers.
What is suburbs?
100
This person was the leading spokesman for progressive education.
Who is John Dewey?
100
A type of music with a strong rhythm and a lively melody with accented notes. It was popular in the early 1900s.
What is ragtime?
200
The cramped quarters on the lower decks of ships.
What is steerage?
200
In 1873 San Francisco began the construction of this type of transportation.
What is a cable-car?
200
A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety that can be found in urban slums.
What is a tenement?
200
This person founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
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?
300
The amount of time it took immigrants to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
What is 12 days?
300
Before streets were paved, they were made of these materials.
What is sand, gravel, and dirt?
300
The most famous settlement house was founded in Chicago by Jane Addams in 1889.
What is the Hull House?
300
This act gave states large amounts of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education.
What is the Morrill Act?
300
This person purchased the New York "World" in 1883 and created a new kind of newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
400
The American poet whose work is on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
400
This type of construction was being done in the 1870's so that people could travel over large bodies of water.
What is building bridges?
400
This person invented the safety elevator.
Who is Elisha Otis?
400
The states used funds from the Morrill Act to create these schools.
What is land-grant colleges?
400
This person built the first public library.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
This was the first law that was passed to limit immigration in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
This type of transportation made its debut in Boston in 1897.
What is the subway?
500
This reporter took photographs of the living conditions in the slums.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
A scientist whose research changed agricultural development in the South and their research was based on peanuts.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
This sparked an increase in the number of newspapers, magazines, and books in the late 1800s.