The industry most closely associated with the term “sweatshops”?
What is a garment factory?
100
Cultural activities shared by many people.
What is mass culture?
100
Opened the Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
Why did so many people want to immigrate to the United States?
What are job opportunities, land, religious freedoms, and chance at a new start in life?
100
Some Americans resented immigrants coming to America.
Will they take our jobs? Will they drive down wages? Will they bring new diseases?
200
Most immigrants traveled in these where the cabins were hot, cramped, and foul-smelling.
What is steerage?
200
The steel industry brought this main change to American architecture.
What are skyscrapers?
200
City governments built these to improve city sanitation.
What are water purification systems?
200
Major innovations and changes cities used to respond to the resulting overcrowding.
What are skyscrapers, mass transit, suburbs?
200
At the top of the economic and social ladder were the very rich. They built mansions and lived lavishly. Underneath this was poverty, or very poor.
What is The Gilded Age?
300
Americans who believed that the United States should not allow so many immigrants into the country.
What are nativists?
300
Residential neighborhoods outside of downtown.
What are suburbs?
300
His exhibit of photographs and maps helped get the New York State Tenement House Act passed.
Who is Lawrence Veiller?
300
Problems resulted from the overcrowding in city tenements.
What are unsanitary conditions, diseases, high death rates- especially for children, fires, and crime?
300
Forms of transportation for growing cities in the late 1800's to early 1900's.
What are streetcars, cable-cars, trolley cars, subways, steel bridges.
400
Banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
He designed Central Park in New York City.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
400
Main cause of pollution in Pittsburgh.
What is smoke from steel mills?
400
Ways mass culture developed in the United States during the late 1800s?
What are newspaper publishing, department stores, World Fair, public entertainment became more widely available?
400
She spent a lifetime helping others. During the Civil War , she cared for wounded Union Soldiers. In 1881, she organized the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
500
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings.
What are tenements?
500
Built to assimilate and ease the transition of immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class American values.
What are Settlement Houses?
500
Became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in NYC tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
The Statue of Liberty.
What did new immigrants see before docking at Ellis Island. (Lady Liberty is one of the first sites when sailing into the harbor, and she is symbolic of freedom.)