Post on 26-Mar-2015
JeopardyHow did
technology impact
American life?
How did political
machines affect city
life?
How did immigrants settle and
change life in America?
How did urban living conditions
change during the early 20th century?
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Technology
What new technology drew so many people to cities?
$100 Answer from Technology
Factories/ Assembly Line
$200 Question from Technology
How did Elevators Impact city growth?
$200 Answer from Technology
Allowed for the building of large sky scrapers by allowing workers to go up many floors
very easily
$300 Question from Technology
Steel buildings replaced?
$300 Answer from Technology
Brick, Stone, and Concrete Buildings
$400 Question from Technology
What was the specific type of new transportation that Chicago had? (What was different there than other cities?)
$400 Answer from Technology
Elevated Rail Lines, or El Lines
$500 Question from Technology
Why can sky scrapers have lots of windows?
$500 Answer from Technology
The outer walls of the skyscraper do not need to support the weight of the building, so skyscrapers use windows to let in light.
$100 Question from Political Machines
An Organization that influences enough votes
to control a local government is?
$100 Answer from Political Machines
Political Machine
$200 Question from Political Machines
How did Political Machines achieve their goals and get
votes legally?
$200 Answer from Political Machines
By giving favors like Jobs or Food to their supporters
$300 Question from Political Machines
What was the most famous political machine?
$300 Answer from Political Machines
Tammany Hall
$400 Question from Political Machines
Despite their shrewd activities to gain control, what types of good things did
political machines do?
$400 Answer from Political Machines
Built Parks, sewers, schools, roads, and orphanages in many cities.
$500 Question from Political Machines
Who was the leader of the Tammany Hall Political
Machine?
$500 Answer from Political Machines
William Marcy Tweed “Boss Tweed”
$100 Question from Immigrants
There were two major waves of immigration from Europe. Where were they from?
$100 Answer from Immigrants
1. North and Western Europe2. South and Eastern Europe
$200 Question from Immigrants
What were the 3 immigration centers we studied during this chapter?
$200 Answer from Immigrants
Ellis Island, Angel Island, and San Antonio, Texas
$300 Question from Immigrants
What is an Ethnic Neighborhood? What are two examples?
$300 Answer from Immigrants
A neighborhood where people of the same ethnicity live together. EX: Chinatown and Little Italy,
etc.
$400 Question from Immigrants
As more and more immigrants came to the United States,
America became a ______ and immigrants were forced to _________ to American
Culture.
$400 Answer from Immigrants
Melting Pot, and Assimilation
$500 Question from Immigrants
Many immigrants faced discrimination but what one group was discriminated the most. What
did the American Government pass discriminating these people?
$500 Answer from Immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
$100 Question from Urban Life
Urbanization is what?
$100 Answer from Urban Life
Growth of Cities
$200 Question from Urban Life
What is a Tenement?
$200 Answer from Urban Life
An apartment that is run down and overcrowded.
$300 Question from Urban Life
What is a Slum?
$300 Answer from Urban Life
A neighborhood that is overcrowded and has dangerous housing.
$400 Question from Urban Life
The Social Gospel aimed at improving life for the Urban Poor. Some reformers were
inspired to create what?
$400 Answer from Urban Life
Settlement Houses
$500 Question from Urban Life
The most important social gospel reformer was ________ and what did
this person start in Chicago?
$500 Answer from Urban Life
Jane Addams and the Hull House.
$100 Question from Random
What is the American Symbol of Freedom and Liberty?
$100 Answer from Random
Statue of Liberty
$200 Question from Random
If you had this infection you were almost always
sent back to Europe.
$200 Answer from Random
Pink Eye.
$300 Question from Random
What was the first city with a Street Car system?
$300 Answer from Random
Richmond, Virginia
$400 Question from Random
What are five Push and Pull Factors for Immigrants?
$400 Answer from Random
Answers Will Vary
$500 Question from Random
How many Irish Immigrated to the United States or
Europe because of the Potato Famine?
$500 Answer from Random
1 Million
Final Jeopardy
The state with the highest amount of people who walk to work is?
Final Jeopardy Answer
Alaska!!