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21 Cards in this Set
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How did population patterns change between 1860 to 1890?
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Most new immigrants to the U.S settled to the cities.
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What the relationship between factory work and the interest in sports in the late 1800's?
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As factory work intensified workers sought sports as a mean of relaxation.
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What was NOT a result of the building boom in the late 1880's?
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The carriage was not a result.
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Poor, Middle class, Upper Class are examples of what?
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Patterns of city settlement
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What did the poor mostly live in?
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tenements
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Critics complained about these types of newspaper stories.
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yellow journalism
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Increase in population resulted in what structures being built?
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skyscrapers
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Define the Chinese Exclusion Act
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The first law to prevent a national group from entering the U.S.
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Strongest effect on the growth of education after the Civil War
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compulsory education laws
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Reformers used these to solve city problems.
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profesional fire companies
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The main theme found in realist writing was...
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the problems of the poor
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What did compulsory laws enforce?
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Children had to attend school
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How did newspapers attract women readers?
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They contained topics of interest to women.
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How did acculturation help immigrants blend into American society?
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They were able to retain their own cultures while adapting to American customs.
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Specifically name some ways immigrants adapted to American culture? (study p. 604)
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They:
1. settled in neighborhoods with people from the same country. 2. Spoke their own languages and learned english 3. blended old and new ways 4. some were accepted through entertainment |
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Describe the reading habits of America in the late 1800's.
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1. Dime novels became popular
2. newspapers w/ yellow journalism contained latest news 3. local color was used more commonly in writing |
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urbanization
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movement of population from farms to cities
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local color
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reference to speech and habits of a particular region
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acculturation
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process of holding on to traditions while adapting to a new culture
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ragtime
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music w/ a lively, rythmic sound
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vaudeville
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variety shows including different forms of entertainment
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