Chapter 16 The Lure of America

Movement in the late 1800's that applied Christian principles to Social problems

Poorest accommodations in a ships lower levels.

Most immigrants who went through Angel Island were from where?

In 1882, it denied citizenship to the Chinese and prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers

How big is Central Park?

The expansion of __________ made newspapers and literature more important in the daily lives of many Americans.

President Benjamin Harrison designated __________ as a federal immigration station?

About what percentage of New York City lived in tenements in 1900?

Throughout the Potato famine years, about how many Irish arrived in the U.S.?

Baseball evolved in the 1800's from what British game?

Which is NOT an example of conspicuous consumption?

Where do most immigrants to the US come from today?

Walter Camp made considerable contributions to football, and established many of its rules and principles.

Why did many immigrants flee Ireland?

Women were discouraged from playing basketball.

Where was the federal Immigration processing station on the west coast?

Portraying Shakespeare's plays, __________ proved to be one of the most popular attractions of the 1860s and 1870s.

Irish immigrant who led the "Workingmen's Party of California" and wanted rid of Chinese immigrants

In the late 1800s, Basketball became known as the American pastime.

In the late 1800’s, no Americans spent their leisure time playing organized sports because they were too depressed.

What was Scott Joplins most famous work?

Sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers.

Where did Walter Camp play football?

Which of these were immigrants subjected to at Ellis Island?

Immigrants who came to America never faced discrimination.

Religious aid organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death

Immigrants who came to the US before 1880 and were mostly protestants form Europe.

Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead designed what?

Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city are called what?

A popular cartoon inspired many critics to refer to the style of sensational reporting as Yellow Journalism.

What did Compulsory Education Laws require parents to do?

Today, most immigrants to the United States come from North and South America.

The new immigrants came to the U.S. from the 1880's to the 1910's. Where did most come from?

What did John Dewey promote?

Where is Ellis Island?

Poor apartment buildings that housed many poor city-dwellers in the late 1800s and early 1900s

In 1852, the mechanical elevator was invented by who?

He (John Dewey) also emphasized art, __________, and science.

This movement stressed including public parks and attractive boulevards in designs of cities.

Prior to mass transit, the typical city covered about how many square miles?

Who was the inventor of basketball.

The rules of baseball actually evolved in the early and mid-1800s from the British game called __________.

Large, multi-story buildings that allow cities to expand upward

If an immigrant had a criminal record, diseases, or mental problems, what happened to them?

Besides steel frames, what invention allowed modern skyscrapers to be a reality?

The act of spending money to publicly display one's wealth.

In 1903, the first World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Pilgrims.

By 1900, nobody lived in tenement apartments, and they were all torn down.

What does the term "Nouveau Riche" refer to?

U.S. cities got smaller during the late 1800s.

What was Scott Joplins nickname?

Popular actor, Edwin Booth, was the brother of what famous person?

When a city and its suburbs spread over the rural land it is known as what?

What did the Immigration Restriction League want to impose on all immigrants?