Ch 10 Sec 2 Reading Guide

  1. By 1900 how many American’s lived in cities with populations over 50,000?
  1. Give two of the ways Urban people lived differently from rural people.
  1. If city workers saved part of their wages what could they do?
  1. Employees at steel mills were predominately of what dissent?
  1. Where did most African American’s stay?
  1. What did Elisha Otis invent?
  1. What invention first hit Richmond, VA in 1888?
  1. What were the two problems associated with trolleys pulled by horses?
  1. Where did the middle and upper class move to get away from the city?
  1. What city did Daniel Burnham design, and for what reason did he do this?
  1. In what cities did Frederick Law Olmstead design park?
  1. What journalist drew attention of the plight of tenement dwellers?
  1. How do the two quotes differ on page 345 about suburbs?
  1. Planners started taking water from reservoirs that were separated from what?
  1. The fire in Chicago in 1871 killed how many people and left how many homeless?
  1. What building did Louis Sullivan create?

Chapter 10 Sec 3

  1. By 1893 how many bicycles were in use in America?
  1. How did Mark Twain depict American society?
  1. Who opened the first department store in New York in 1958?
  1. What did John Wanamaker issue to keep customers satisfied?
  1. What contributed to better health during the Gilded Age?
  1. Define Mass Culture.
  1. Whom did department stores aim their advertising to? Why?
  1. What was the name of the newspaper started by Pulitzer?
  1. What two things did Pulitzer think was the responsibility of newspapers?
  1. The Philadelphia Tribune targeted what type of people?
  1. Who wrote the book The Red Badge of Courage? What did it tell?
  1. AschcanSchool of art dramatized what?
  1. What was the first decade in which literacy rose above 90%?
  1. By 1910 about how many high schools were in the US?
  1. John Dewey sought to enhance student learning by doing what?
  1. Where was the first roller coaster located?
  1. Parks represented what for city laborers?
  1. What did “Buffalo Bill” offer prizes for at his celebration?
  1. Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauqua what?
  1. What were vaudeville show?
  1. What were the first movie theaters called?
  1. When did baseball turn into a business?
  1. When was the song “Take me out to the Ball Game” written?
  1. What other sports became popular spectator sports? (4)
  1. Who invented basketball in 1891?
  1. Who has the most wins in Major League History?
  1. Baseball was deemed America’s national sport-what sport do you think is America’s national sport now? Explain your answer?