Chapter 6 Flashcards
(31 cards)
When and where did the Brooklyn Bridge open?
1883 in New York
Who founded Chicago’s Hull House?
Jane Addams
Name a woman’s college
Bryn Mawr
What provided medical care?
Settlement houses
What gave federal land for education and provided funds for land-grant colleges?
The Morrill Act
Who was a poet?
Emma Lazarus
What were urban apartment slums?
Tenements
Who was a regionalist writer?
Mark Twain
What were tenements?
Urban apartment slums where many immigrants lived
What is an African American college?
Howard University
What required that immigrants be able to read and write in some language?
The Immigration Act of 1917
What does it mean to leave a person’s homeland?
To emigrate
List two things that caused people to emigrate
Economic troubles and persecution
What were the site of middle class housing called?
Suburbs
Who was an impressionist painter?
Mary Cassatt
What was the first law passed to limit immigration?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
How long did it take immigrants to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
12 days
Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
What is an example of a sweatshop?
A clothing factory
It took several week for immigrants to cross what ocean to the United States?
The Pacific Ocean
Who invented moving pictures?
Thomas Edison
What were the beginning of today’s multi-million dollar film industry?
Nickelodeons
What was a magazine published in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s that is still published today?
The Atlantic Monthly
Booker T. Washington founded what?
Tuskegee Institute
