SS test 12/11/07
SS test 12/11/07
if anything is wrong or spelt incorrectly, please notify me.
if anything is wrong or spelt incorrectly, please notify me.
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- Theodore Dreiser
- naturalist author of [italics] Sister Carrie [italics]
- Louisa May Alcott
- author of [italics] Little Women [italics]
- benevolent societies
- aid organizations founded to provide help in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
- chinese exclusion act
- act that prohibited chinese people from immigrating to the US for 10 years
- department stores
- provided a great variety of goods all in one location
- Mass culture
- leisure and cultural activities shared by many people, ex- PIZZA
- Winslow Homer
- painted unsentimental watercolors of rural life in New England
- federal
- the articles of confederation did not work because it gave too much power to the states and not enough to the _______ government
- new immigrants
- immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern europe
- George Eastman
- developed the box camera
- Jacob Riis
- news photographer who took realistic pictures of urban life and slums
- linotype
- an automatic typesetting machine that reduced the time and cost of printing
- the declaration of independence
- what is the document called that states the reasons why the colonists wanted to break away from britain?
- Great Britain
- what country controlled the 13 colonies?
- realism
- realistic style of writing that presented accurate images of American Society
- political clubs
- discuss local and national issues
- museums
- created to educate the public and make beautiful city centers
- John Singer Sargent
- American potrait painter who worked mainly in Europe
- the articles of confederation
- what is the name for the first document that outlined the rules for the colonists after breaking away from Great Britain?
- Horatio Alger Jr
- wrote novels about young men who rose from poverty to wealth through hard work and honesty
- media
- forms perspectives
- tenements
- poorly built, overcrowded apartments where many immigrants lived
- steerage
- an area on a ship's lower levels near where the steering mechanisms were located
- settlement houses
- neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities
- Alfred Stieglitz
- leader in art photography
- The Constitution
- What did the Articles of Confederation become after it did not work?
- lodges
- provide recreation for members
- mass transit
- public transportation that city planners tried to ease congestion with
- taxes
- what was the main reason how the french and indian war led to the revolution?
- hull house
- the most famous settlementm house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889
- suburbs
- residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas
- Philanthropists
- tried to educate the public and created museums
- churches
- where african american women could hold power and influence in their communities
- immigration restriction league
- demanded that all immigrants prove that they could read and write before being allowed into the country
- progroms
- helped with the persecution of Jewish people in Eastern Europe
- Imperialism
- the term for the economic benefit that the mother country gets from the colonies?
- Samuel Clemens
- local-color writer who used the name Mark Twain
- old immigrants
- immigrants who had come to the US before the 1880s from Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandenavia, or Northern Europe