Immigration
This was the location of most immigrants' arrival to the US on the East Coast
What is Ellis Island?
Overcrowding, crime, and poor sanitation were all...
What are problems of city growth?
She wrote the New Colossus, a famous poem about The Statue of Liberty.
Who is Emma Lazarus?
This group of people were responsible for most of cities' growth
Who are immigrants
These were overcrowded apartment buildings in cities typically inhabited by poor immigrant families.
What are tenements
This was the place of the immigrants' arrival on the West Coast, in California
What is Angel Island?
This spread easily in overcrowded apartment buildings and cities
What is disease?
These were two newspaper owners in the late 1900s
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst
In what part of the city were tenements located?
What is the center of the city.
These were stuffy, unhealthy factories that usually made clothes and had unsafe working conditions.
What is sweatshops
This is the part of Europe where the "new" immigrants came from
What is southern and eastern Europe?
This was a famous settlement house started by Jane Addams
What is the Hull House
This Italian nun started a settlement house in New York City.
Who was Mother Cabrini?
These tall buildings made of steel helped shaped the modern city skyline
What are skyscrapers
She was a journalist who pretended she was crazy in order to write a news story about the cruel treatment of mentally ill people in hospitals.
Who was Nellie Bly?
This is the name of the community centers that helped many poor immigrants who were sick, homeless and in need. Jane Addams ran them most famous one.
What are settlement houses?
#####Daily Double####### This is the term for the mass migration of people from farms to cities.
What are urbanization.
He is best known for his Ragtime songs called, The Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer.
Who was Scott Joplin?
This form of transportation, first seen in Boston, helped traffic in cities and was soon followed by New York.
What is the subway?
He invented the sport of basketball.
Who was Dr. James Naismith?
This was the name given to a person who blamed immigrants for problems in cities such as crime and unemployment.
What is a nativist?
He wrote "How the Other Half Lives", which contained his photographs of slum life in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Also known as Samuel Clemens, this famous American author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who was Mark Twain?
These giant retail shops began opening in the late 19th century and offered different types of products in one place.
What are department stores?
##Daily Double####His rags to riches stories helped poor people to have hope that they could reach the American Dream.
Who was Horatio Alger?