Pageant Chapter 25

Front 1

B/w 1870 and 1900 what percentage did the Am. population grow?

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200%

Front 2

What happened to the population in the Am. cities?

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Tripled

Front 3

By 1890, which cities in the US had populations greater than 1 million?

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New York, Chicago, Philadelphia

Front 4

What innovation allowed for the building of skyscrapers in most major cities?

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Electric elevators

Front 5

What Chicago architect is best known for the creation of the skyscraper?

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Louis Sullivan

Front 6

What famous bridge in NYC will be dedicated in 1883, and was one of the greatest engineering marvels of its day?

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Brooklyn Bridge

Front 7

Name the 2 mail-order houses which helped to put the rural "general store" out of business.

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Sears & Montgomery Ward

Front 8

Which author is responsible for creating the fictional heroine Carrie Meeber in Sister Carrie (1900) which helped to boost the dazzling dept. stores by having her escape in one which allowed her to escape her boring life?

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Theodore Dreiser

Front 9

The greatest shift from rural to the city took place which two decades?

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Front 10

What happened to the shift to the city after 1870?

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Slowed drastically

Front 11

What will be one of the major problems facing off all of the urban growth in the early 1900s?

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Feverish growth

Front 12

What will be some of the consequences from the problem in a previous question?

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Criminals, impure water, garbage, etc.

Front 13

The following is a description of what time period: "The glaring contrasts that assaulted the eye in New York reminded one visitor of "a lady in ball costume, with diamonds in her ears, and her toes out at the boots."?

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...

Front 14

These tenements were usually 7 or 8 stories high, with shallow, sunless, and ill-smelling air shafts providing minimal ventilation with several families sardined onto each floor?

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Dumbbell tenement

Front 15

Why did immigration to the US drop off drastically between 1814-1920?

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World War I

Front 16

During which 2 decades did immigration spike the highest in the US?

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1980-1990

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What was the major cause of the spike?

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Amnesty granted to certain documented immigrants

Front 18

Which immigrant groups were considered the Old immigrant groups in the late 19th century?

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Germans, Irish, Chinese

Front 19

Which immigrant groups were considered the New immigrant groups in the late 19th century?

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Italians, Jews, Croats, Slovaks, Greeks, and Poles

Front 20

During which decade was immigration to the US the lowest in our history?

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1940

Front 21

This immigrant group came to the US from 1875-1885 causing a small spike in immigration numbers?

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Indo-Chinese refugees

Front 22

Which immigrant group, Old or New, were considered the most skilled?

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New immigrants

Front 23

Most historians consider this time period the greatest immigration period for the US?

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Front 24

What profession did most of the Jewish women fall into upon arrival in the US?

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Sweatshop workers

Front 25

How did the Catholics and Jews try and preserve their traditional culture while in the US?

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School systems and foreign language newspapers

Front 26

This man was responsible for the corrupt politics in NYC in the late 1800s?

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Boss Tweed

Front 27

In return for their vote, what did the New immigrant groups get?

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Jobs & services

Front 28

When the churches started taking on the burning social issues of the day in the late 19th century, this was better known as what movement? (Different than Carnegie's philosophy)

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Progressive reform movement

Front 29

This woman will be most responsible for the creation of the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago?

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Jane Addams

Front 30

This settlement house in NYC like Hull House, became the center of women's activism and of social reform?

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Henry Street Settlement

Front 31

Who was responsible for the settlement house in NYC?

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Lillian Wald

Front 32

What does the cartoon on page 569 describe?

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Simplicity of rural life & innocence of youth

Front 33

What staple of NYC arrived in 1886 as a gift from the people of France?

Back 33

Statue of Liberty

Front 34

This British born organization will move to the US in 1879 and est. a beachhead on the street corners- appealing to the down-and-outers?

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Salvation Army

Front 35

This christian organization will become a staple for many american cities by the end of the 19th century?

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YMCA

Front 36

Who was the author of the On the Origin of Species published in 1859?

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Charles Darwin

Front 37

Who were trained in "normal schools"?

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Teachers

Front 38

The Chautauqua movement is best known for the education of whom?

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Adults

Front 39

This former slave will be responsible for the creation of the Tuskegee Institute?

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Booker T. Washington

Front 40

Who called the gentlemen in #41 an "Uncle Tom"?

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Dr. W. E. B. Dubois

Front 41

What 1960s civil rights icons could Du Bois and Washington be most characterized like?

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Southern & northern blacks

Front 42

What did the Morrill Act of 1862 create?

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Provided a grant of the public lands to the states for support of education (land grant colleges)

Front 43

What did the Hatch Act of 1887 help to create?

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A series of agriculture experiment stations

Front 44

This type of journalism is best described as exaggerated stories with some of them causing the Spanish/American War?

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Yellow Journalism

Front 45

This journalist is best known for his book Progress and Poverty which tried to solve the problem with progress and poverty?

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Henry George

Front 46

This journalist-reformer wrote the socialistic novel, Looking Backward, in which the hero, falling into a hypnotic sleep, awakens in the year 2000 and looks back at the many social and economic injustices?

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Edward Bellamy

Front 47

This popular writer created over 100 volumes of juvenile fiction, which centered on virtue, honestly, and industry which was rewarded by success, wealth, and honor.

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Horatio Alger

Front 48

This famous author created the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" after the assassination of Abe Lincoln.

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Walt Whitman

Front 49

Which author wrote The Red Badge of Courage (1895) describing the Civil War?

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Stephen Crane

Front 50

what famous book did Jack London create in 1903 describing nature?

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The Call of the Wild

Front 51

Which region of the US was responsible for the creation of women's suffrage first? Why?

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West; More equal to men

Front 52

Which US state gave women the right to vote first?

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Wyoming

Front 53

Which amendment to the Constitution will give women the right to vote in 1920?

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19th Amendment

Front 54

Which amendment to the constitution created the first income tax in US history?

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16th Amendment

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Which amendment to the constitution created the direct election of US Senators? How were they originally elected?

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17th Amendment; state legislation

Front 56

This law created in 1873 was geared after the confiscation of obscene pictures and photos.

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Comstock Law

Front 57

What will be one of the consequences from the push for women's suffrage?

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Exclusion of black women

Front 58

What was Carrie Nation famous for?

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American temperance advocate famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms

Front 59

Clara Barton created this aid agency in 1881?

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Red Cross

Front 60

The WCTU stood for what anti-alcoholic group?

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Front 61

Which amendment to the constitution will be created in 1919 banning the sale, transportation and consumption of alcoholic beverages?

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18th Amendment

Front 62

Who was famous for his Wild West shows in the late 1800s?

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William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody

Front 63

Who was the famous sharp-shooting woman who was part of the Wild West show?

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Annie Oakley

Front 64

This type of stage act contained coarse jokes and graceful acrobats and entertained many people from the late 1800s through the 1920s?

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Vaudeville

Front 65

Who created the "Greatest Show on Earth"?

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Phineas T Barnum & James A Bailey

Front 66

What Am. sport is Walter C. Camp responsible for creating?

Back 66

Football

Front 67

What Am. sport did James Naismith create?

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Basketball

Front 68

Place the following in chronological order: Creation of the NAACP, Creation of the Salvation Army, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Wyoming territory grants women the right to vote, Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Lillian Wald opens Henry Street Settlement.

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