New Immigrants in a Promise land
Conditions that drive people from their homes.
What is a Push Factor?
The movement of population from farms to cities.
Whats a urbanization?
Tall buildings with many floors supported by a light weight steel frame.
What are skyscrapers?
Required children to attend school
What is compulsory education?
33 college players died from this.
How many died from injuries with no helmets in football?
A condition that attract immigrants to a new area.
What a Pull Factor?
Small apartments
What are tenements?
Residential area or near the outskirts of a city
What is suburb?
Church sponsored schools
What are parochial schools?
This came out of European Soccer.
What is football?
An organized a attack on Jewish villages.
What's a pogroms?
Standards for construction and safety.
What are Building Codes?
Sold all kinds of goods in different sections or departments
What's a new department stores?
sensational reporting style
What is yellow journalism?
James Naismith
Who invented basketball?
The airless rooms below deck.
What's a steerage?
Community centers that offered services to the poor.
What are Settlement Houses?
A variety show that included comedians song and dance routines and acrobats
What's vaudeville?
tried to show the harsh side of life as it was.
What's realists?
Soldiers showed Union players how to play this sport's first game in New York.
What is baseball?
Growth in population, machines replaced workers, religious persecution.
What is push factors that caused people to leave their home county?
An organization started by a minister from London who wanted to help the poor.
What's the Salvation Army?
Learning a new language, overcrowded neighborhoods, and unemployment.
What were problems immigrants faced?
Author of Huckleberry
Who was Mark Twain?
Two bushel baskets at the YMCA in Massachusetts.
What was the first basketball game?