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Get faster at matching terms Terms in this set (54)New York's Central Park Olmsted and Vaux created parks for several other major cities. What was one of the most famous parks they designed? cricket American baseball began as a game known as rounders, a game that was similar to what other sport? cooks, domestic servants, and janitors What three jobs were most common for African Americans to work in the late nineteenth century? longer and more elaborate operations What did the use of blood transfusions in medical treatments allow for? tenements By the late nineteenth century, what word had become synonymous with slum dwellings? church organizations, foods, and languages What were three familiar things to immigrants in ethnic neighborhoods and helped them feel a sense of belonging? an increasing demand for specialized skills and scientific knowledge What spurred the rise of public schooling? the sewing machine What machine made it possible for manufacturers to mass produce ready-made clothes? U.S. colleges and universities Where did American football originate?
capital and education What two things did immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century generally lack led them to work unskilled jobs? short peepshows What describes the earliest films of the American movie industry? assimilation By only selling American products, nonethnic merchants encouraged immigrants to accept American diets, clothing, and lifestyles in what process? human waste Many cities lacked adequate systems for disposing of what waste until the twentieth century? dance halls, vaudeville houses, and concert halls In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where did many working-class New Yorkers spend their evenings? They moved to the edges of the city to find less expensive land. What best describes where the middle class tended to live in late-nineteenth-century urban areas? mechanization of agriculture By 1900, many farmers had more free time due to what? the slowness of horsecars and population increases What things prompted cities to build mass transportation networks in the late nineteenth century? to escape rural poverty and oppression Why did southern blacks move to urban areas in the late 1800s? machine-powered passenger elevator What invention was crucial to the design of the first tall buildings? doctors Wages for which of the following professions rose dramatically and rapidly during the late nineteenth century? an opportunity for escape and hints of sexual freedom What were two things that people found so appealing about the amusement parks of Coney Island? to win votes for their organization by any means necessary What was the main objective of political bosses? city beautiful What movement did the Columbian Exposition in Chicago help to inspire? resistance from educators, scientists, and theologians. The theory of evolution initially encountered... (finish the sentence) large immigrant communities What type of communities did political machines rely heavily on for the potential of voting power? maintained close ties with their home countries Once they immigrated to the United States, what relationship did many immigrants have with their homelands? expressionism and abstraction Members of the Ashcan school were among the first Americans to appreciate which two artistic movements? They made shopping alluring and glamorous. Which of the following was an advantage department stores had over other stores? going to tea rooms, going to luncheonettes, and shopping What three things were among the activities most women preferred to spend their time on in the early twentieth century? Coney Island Luna Park and Dreamland were extravagant attractions of what place located in Brooklyn? professional police forces. Rising crime rates encouraged many cities to create larger and more... (complete the sentence) Alexander Graham Bell Who first demonstrated the telephone in 1876? the equivalent of laziness or sloth Before the Civil War, what did most Americans think leisure was? speak English on the job In order to encourage assimilation, what did employers often insist that immigrant workers do? triple-deckers Cheap three-story wooden houses in Boston were called what? leisure time with other people. In the early twentieth century, both working-class and affluent New Yorkers preferred to spend their... (complete the sentence) graft and corruption Political machines made it particularly easy for politicians to enrich themselves and their allies through what two ways? technological advances in mass production and transportation made more consumer goods available and at a lower cost In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, Americans bought more consumer products partly because of what? wealthy residents Who contributed most to the development of public buildings like museums and theaters? the Sears and Roebuck company What company established a large market for its mail-order merchandise by distributing an enormous catalog? the Salvation Army What charitable society began operating in 1879 and concentrated more on religious revivalism than on relief of the homeless and hungry? women's colleges What was most important to advancing women's education in the post-Civil War era? perpetual coal-smoke fogs What was NOT an environmental problem present in most late-nineteenth-century American cities? contaminated drinking water, air pollution, and industrial waste dumps What are three environmental problems that were present in most late-nineteenth-century American cities? Chinese In 1882, the United States restricted the immigration of what people? urban areas In 1920 it was revealed that for the first time the majority of Americans lived in what areas? dime novels What novels were cheaply bound and widely circulated, and provided readers with such entertainments as detective stories, Westerns, scientific adventures, and novels of moral uplift? Immigrants to other countries tended to come from only one or two other nations. What best describes how late-nineteenth-century immigrants to the United States differed from immigrants to other countries? stood the test of experience According to the pragmatists, no idea or institution was valid unless it what? political power What did immigrants who settled in cities where their nationalities were predominant, such as the Irish in New York or Germans in Milwaukee, learn to exert? rootless populations Violence in the West often occurred because many areas had what? liberal Protestantism What Christian movements harmonized scientific discoveries with their religious beliefs? Civil War Baseball first became very popular at the end of the what? donations by philanthropists In the 1800s, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League schools often received resources through who? 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