HP 6 Chapter 19

What was the most infamous political machine?

A New school emereged to address the need for space in urban areas by designing skyscrappers

A corrupt system that emerged with mass immigration where a boss would buy the votes of immigrants exchange for jobs...

Form of new music, which orginated in AA community with a syncopated beat and wildly popular with AA and whites

In an effort to address natural disasters that hit urban cities the need to have emergency services

What was The Jungle about?

Progressive movement in urban areas to address the plight of urban poor, by providing housing education etc..

Who founded the Hull House?

Reformers who emerged as a new political movement during the Gilded Age

An effort by Progressives to encourage Americans to buy from businesses that paid their workers well

Who wrote The Jungle?

Form of AA music that mimicked the hardships of slavery and sharecropping

Competition for jobs between immigrants and AA led to conflict

A horrible tragedy that was caused by unsafe working conditions led to the death of 146 women

Broken down, disease ridden, dangerous housing where the poorest of immigrants were forced to live in American cities

A place of entertainment for young people in urban areas with music, theaters, etc.

What is the most well known social settlement?

Was a former slave saw ragtime as an expression of the suffering, introduced RT at the Chicago World Faire 1893

Progressive who was a nurse and horrified by lack of health care for immigrant women started a free clinic for women

A deceitful for of news that often embelshied and misled to sell newspapers

Photographer made famous for taking photos of tenement house living

An organization that started in NY funded by wealthy women to help create unions for garmet workers

The first was in Chicago to serve Italian immigrants to provide food, education to poor

Movement to make city parks and create green areas within cities during the Gilded Age (Central Park stuff)

Progressive journalists who exposed the dark side of the Gilded Age were called what?

Sinclair hoped The Jungle would gain sympathy for the factory workers, but instead wanted safer food

Progressive business man who ran for Mayor in Cleveland pushed for municipal owernship if utilites and weathy pay tax

A member of Hull House, but not founder, who stated only government oversight could protect factory workers