Studies Weekly- 5th Grade Week 17

Jane Addams started which facility to help the needy?

What invented basketball?

What sporting event was held for the first time in 1903?

What does omnivorous mean?

What is one thing rats cannot do?

What drew people to reading Joseph Pulitzer's newspapers?

How was Addams rewarded for her efforts to help others in need?

What made it possible to live further from the center of a city but still get around the area?

Immigrants went to Pittsburg, PA; Gary, Indiana; and Birmingham, AL to work in which industry? 

J.P. Morgan was worth how much money?

J.P. Morgan helped start ________________.

What have rats been blamed for doing?

What area did Addams try to change?

In the early 1900s, how many newspapers were there in the United States?

J.P. Morgan worked for his father in what field?

Where did Clarence Birdseye get the idea for frozen food?

Unlike other newspapers of his time, what other areas did Pulitzer's papers cover?

Estimate in millions how many people read a newspaper each day?

By the 1890s, half of the population of the US lived in which five states?

Which disease was common in the slum tenements?

What helped pollute the Chicago river?

Through which event did both Pulitzer and his competitor, Hearst, practice yellow journalism?

What is the practice of exaggerating the truth or making things up about news stories?