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68 Cards in this Set
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B/w 1870 and 1900 what percentage did the Am. population grow?
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200%
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What happened to the population in the Am. cities?
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Tripled
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By 1890, which cities in the US had populations greater than 1 million?
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New York, Chicago, Philadelphia
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What innovation allowed for the building of skyscrapers in most major cities?
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Electric elevators
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What Chicago architect is best known for the creation of the skyscraper?
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Louis Sullivan
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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
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Name the 2 mail-order houses which helped to put the rural "general store" out of business.
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Sears & Montgomery Ward
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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
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The greatest shift from rural to the city took place which two decades?
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What happened to the shift to the city after 1870?
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Slowed drastically
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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
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What will be some of the consequences from the problem in a previous question?
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Criminals, impure water, garbage, etc.
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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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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
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Why did immigration to the US drop off drastically between 1814-1920?
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World War I
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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
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Which immigrant groups were considered the Old immigrant groups in the late 19th century?
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Germans, Irish, Chinese
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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
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During which decade was immigration to the US the lowest in our history?
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1940
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This immigrant group came to the US from 1875-1885 causing a small spike in immigration numbers?
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Indo-Chinese refugees
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Which immigrant group, Old or New, were considered the most skilled?
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New immigrants
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Most historians consider this time period the greatest immigration period for the US?
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What profession did most of the Jewish women fall into upon arrival in the US?
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Sweatshop workers
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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
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This man was responsible for the corrupt politics in NYC in the late 1800s?
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Boss Tweed
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In return for their vote, what did the New immigrant groups get?
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Jobs & services
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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
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This woman will be most responsible for the creation of the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago?
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Jane Addams
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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
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Who was responsible for the settlement house in NYC?
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Lillian Wald
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What does the cartoon on page 569 describe?
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Simplicity of rural life & innocence of youth
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What staple of NYC arrived in 1886 as a gift from the people of France?
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Statue of Liberty
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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
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This christian organization will become a staple for many american cities by the end of the 19th century?
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YMCA
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Who was the author of the On the Origin of Species published in 1859?
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Charles Darwin
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Who were trained in "normal schools"?
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Teachers
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The Chautauqua movement is best known for the education of whom?
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Adults
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This former slave will be responsible for the creation of the Tuskegee Institute?
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Booker T. Washington
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Who called the gentlemen in #41 an "Uncle Tom"?
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Dr. W. E. B. Dubois
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What 1960s civil rights icons could Du Bois and Washington be most characterized like?
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Southern & northern blacks
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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)
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What did the Hatch Act of 1887 help to create?
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A series of agriculture experiment stations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This famous author created the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" after the assassination of Abe Lincoln.
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Walt Whitman
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Which author wrote The Red Badge of Courage (1895) describing the Civil War?
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Stephen Crane
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what famous book did Jack London create in 1903 describing nature?
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The Call of the Wild
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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
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Which US state gave women the right to vote first?
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Wyoming
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Which amendment to the Constitution will give women the right to vote in 1920?
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19th Amendment
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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
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This law created in 1873 was geared after the confiscation of obscene pictures and photos.
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Comstock Law
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What will be one of the consequences from the push for women's suffrage?
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Exclusion of black women
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What was Carrie Nation famous for?
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American temperance advocate famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms
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Clara Barton created this aid agency in 1881?
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Red Cross
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The WCTU stood for what anti-alcoholic group?
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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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
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Who was famous for his Wild West shows in the late 1800s?
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William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody
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Who was the famous sharp-shooting woman who was part of the Wild West show?
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Annie Oakley
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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
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Who created the "Greatest Show on Earth"?
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Phineas T Barnum & James A Bailey
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What Am. sport is Walter C. Camp responsible for creating?
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Football
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What Am. sport did James Naismith create?
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Basketball
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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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