Chapter 16: The Transformation Of American Society

Question 0

Steerage

Answer 0

Poor accommodations in ship’s lower levels

Question 1

Settlement house

Answer 1

Community service centers to help the poor communities

Question 2

Social Gospel

Answer 2

Apply Christian principles to address social problems

Question 3

Ragtime

Answer 3

Music created by African American; one hand rhythm and other melody

Question 4

Elisha Otis

Answer 4

Developed mechanized elevator

Question 5

Mass transit

Answer 5

Public transportation for workers

Question 6

Suburbs

Answer 6

Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of cities

Question 7

Jane Addams

Answer 7

Started Hull House; was at the forefront of settlement houses

Question 8

Vaudeville

Answer 8

Variety show

Question 9

Caroline Bartlett

Answer 9

Organized peoples church

Question 10

Denis Kearney

Answer 10

Leader of workmans party

Question 11

Conspicuous Consumption

Answer 11

Spending money freely

Question 12

Benevolent societies

Answer 12

Organizations that helped immigrants

Question 13

Compulsory Education Laws

Answer 13

Required parents to send kids to school

Question 14

What did the immigration restriction league impose on all immigrants?

Answer 14

Literacy test

Question 15

How did mass transit change urban life?

Answer 15

Extended US cities outward

Question 16

Explain who made up the growing middle class?

Answer 16

Doctors, lawyers, small business owners, teachers, accountants, clerks, engineers, managers, and sales people

Question 17

The literature that the nouveau riche read reflected the social standards of what?

Answer 17

British social structure

Question 18

What was the primary goal of the Social Gospel?

Answer 18

Apply Christian principles to address social problems

Question 19

What does yellow journalism refer to?

Answer 19

Style of writing to stretch the truth. Sensational way of news reporting

Question 20

What sport were woman encouraged to play during Victorian era?

Answer 20

Basketball

Question 21

What happened to people on Ellis Island who were found to have disease?

Answer 21

They were sent back

Question 22

Why did people move to the outskirts of the cities?

Answer 22

To live away from the built up cities

Question 23

What did the magazines say to encourage American women to leave their roles as homemaker and to strive to succeed in the business’s world?

Answer 23

Unknown

Question 24

Were schools segregated during the 1800s?

Answer 24

Yes