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Who is Perry H Smith?
A vice president of the chicago & northwestern railroad
100
What is a tenement?
Residential dwellings
100
What was found in 1877?
Womans educational and industrial union.
100
The population of cities grew at _________ the rate of the nations population as a whole.
Double
100
What does (YMCA) stand for?
Young mens christian association
200
Who is "Diamond Jim"?
Railroad magnate
200
What is the gilded age?
Term applied to the late 19th century America that refers to the shallow display
200
What happened in 1873?
First training school for nurses opened in Boston.
200
What was the major source of urban population growth in the late 19th century?
Immigrants and their children
200
What is the Pittsburg Blue law?
Forbid businesses to open on Sundays
300
Who is H.H. Richardson?
Architect
300
What is conspicuous consumption?
Highly visible displays of wealth and consumption.
300
What happened in 1876?
The john hopkins university pioneered a program of research and graduate studies
300
What cities achieved international fame?
New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, and Baltimore
300
Where was the first electrified streetrailway tested?
Richmond, Virginia
400
Who is John Roebling?
Designed the Brooklyn Bridge
400
What was the Womans Educational and Industrial Union?
Boston Organization offering classes to wage earning women
400
What happened in 1869?
Planners in Chicago secured funds to create a citywide system
400
What had centered in the countryside before the civil war?
Manufacturing
400
In what year did the Brooklyn Bridge open?
1883
500
Who is Mark Twain?
Social critic and humorist
500
What is "skid row"?
Homeless pople spent time in the rough taverns
500
Name two of the four museums that were founded during the last decades of the 19th century?
Boston museum of fine arts, Philadelphia museum of art Or Art institute of chicago, metropolitan museum of art in new york
500
What does YWCA stand for?
Young Women Christian Association
500
Describe what a typical tenement would look like?
Sat on a 25 by 100 ft and rose to 5 stories