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23 Cards in this Set
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"Gilded Age" |
1865. Age of Industry, Twain gave it that name because of gild a cheap object with the appearance of value |
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Why Chinese immigrated to USA? |
By the Central Pacific Railroad, welcomed them as cheap labor to work on the construction of the transcontinental line. |
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Percentage of European immigrants |
first decade of 20th century, 70% |
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elevated steam railways |
carried passengers above the crowded streets. |
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electric trolley car |
the most widely used transportation |
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Suffrage |
Right to vote |
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Middle Class |
Ideal social class |
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Sports in America |
Baseball, boxing, croquet, tennis, archery, rowing, golf |
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James Naismith |
Invented basketball in 1891 |
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Nickname of 90s |
"Gay (happy) Nineties" |
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differences between urban and rural |
Urban: City Rural: Country |
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YMCA |
Young Men Christian Association, provided people with food, shelter, clothing and other earthly needs, and gospel. |
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Middle class lifestyle |
professional business people and skilled laborers. Many owned sewing machines, phonographs, gas lights and bathrooms. |
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Dwight L. Moody |
America's well known urban evangelist. |
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Charles Jones Soong |
Great influence on his own country. returned to china as a missionary |
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Joseph Pulitzer |
A Hungarian immigrant who worked his way up from the bottom of the newspaper business to become one of America's best known publishes. |
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Pulitzer Prizes |
Each year people are awarded for journalism, literature, drama and music. |
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Percentage of literate in America by 1900 |
90% |
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Mark Twain |
1935. Most famous of the local writers, journalist-> writing short, humorous stories -> became a famous writer |
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Famous works of Mark Twain |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) |
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Emily Dickinson |
Native of New England. Wrote short, untitled poems full of passion, wit and humor. 2000 poems. |
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James Whitcomb Riley |
famous as the "Hoosier poet" and "the poet of the common people" |
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Charles M. Sheldon |
Novel: In His Steps in 1897 "What would Jesus do?" |
