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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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