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Cities And American Culture
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25 Questions

1. An african american composer who helped make ragtime popular

2. What was the most popular sport in the nation?

3. Sent out traveling groups to educate people

4. A reformer who founded the hull house

5. Inexpensive paperback books that told adventure stories

6. Two reasons african americans moved to cities

7. In 1860 - 1 out of how many people lived in cities?

8. A reporter who pretended to be insane to write entries about mental hospitals

9. laws that set standards for construction and safety

10. What was the biggest killer in tenements (Infant Mortality)

11. People that wanted to change - pressured city governments

12. Planned Central Park in NY

13. Andrew Carnegie believed in this teaching; it called upon successful member of society to help the poor

14. These required children to attend School: These were passed mainly in the north.

15. One Big Urban problem

16. High rates of babies dying

17. A nine story department store built in 1902

18. How did a Building boom changes american cities

19. A realistic Painter

20. These people moved from the rural south for job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow Laws

21. Skyscrapers - Elevators got quicker

22. A style of writing and art that tried to depict life just as it was

23. A six or seven story building that was divided in to smaller buildings

24. MLB banned these players when it started

25. What did the urban middle class depend on?