6th - Ch. 6

Definition: art or literature focused a particular region of the country

Booker T. Washington founded which college to provide African Americans a place to get an education?

Which of the following was NOT a book Mark Twain wrote?

Where was the first skyscraper built?

Immigrants had problems fitting in with American society because they were not allowed on public transportation.

The Hull House was a tenement house where many families lived in cramped quarters. They had to share restrooms & water.

Immigrants had problems fitting in with American society because they lived in communities of the same nationality

A slum is a poor, crowded and run-down urban neighborhood.

Definition: to leave one's place of residence or country to live somewhere else

Who invented basketball?

The troller car and the subway were new forms of transportation developed during the late 1800s

The _________________ said that Chinese workers could not enter the United States for 10 years.

The middle class led a pretty comfortable life and lived in suburbs outside of the crowded cities.

Native Americans were sent to schools because white peopole wanted to help them preserve their Native American culture

Definition: residential areas that appeared close to or surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation

Immigrants had problems fitting in with American society because they had a hard time finding jobs.

More people moved to the city cause many African Americans were looking for better jobs & to escape racism in the South

Definition: to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population

More people moved to the city because new advances in technology allowed women to have less chores around the home

Definition: a leisure time activity where Americans enjoyed watching and following sports such as baseball

James Whistler was a famous American painter whose works include the famous painting, "Whistler's Mother"

Who founded the Hull House in Chicago?

The __________ gave states land to sell to gain money to help build colleges which were later called land-grant colleges

The First World Series occurred in 1903 and the teams playing were the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves

Most immigrants entered America through Boston, where they had to go through processing

This famous ragtime composer wrote well known works such as "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf Rag"

More people moved to the city because new farming equipment was developed that made farming much easier

Immigrants had problems fitting in with American society because they did not speak English.