Chapter 19

Question 1

Chicago school p608 WXT

Answer 1

a) the first major body of works specialising in urban sociology
b) better understanding of sociology
c) helped study sociology

Question 2

mutual aid society p612 PEO

Answer 2

a) an organization formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.
b) helped others
c) provides aid

Question 3

race riot p614 PEO

Answer 3

a) riots due to problems of race
b) happened alot due to segregation
c) happen often today

Question 4

tenement p614 PEO

Answer 4

a) a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
b) how many people used to live
c) influenced today’s appartments

Question 5

vaudeville p615 CUL

Answer 5

a) a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance.
b) helped entertain people
c) impacted modern entertainment

Question 6

ragtime p617 CUL

Answer 6

a) a musical genre that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or “ragged,” rhythm.
b) most famous music type at the time
c) impated todays music

Question 7

blues p618 CUL

Answer 7

a) a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
b) became very famous
c) still influential today

Question 8

yellow journalism p619 CUL

Answer 8

a) journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
b) made important steps in journalism
c) impacted current journalism

Question 9

muckrakers p619 PEO

Answer 9

a) reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting
b) helped make changes
c) made changes to things they wrote upon

Question 10

political machine p619 POL

Answer 10

a) a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses
b) impacted political scene
c) made important steps to improve polotics

Question 11

National Municipal League p624 PEO

Answer 11

a) an American non-profit organization that advocates for transparency, effectiveness, and openness in local government.
b) made government more transparent
c) helped impact modern politics

Question 12

progressivism p624 CUL

Answer 12

a) a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.
b) helped with progress
c) changed views of people

Question 13

“City Beautiful” movement p626 CUL

Answer 13

a) a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.
b) improved the looks of cities
c) made cities nicer

Question 14

social settlement p627 PEO

Answer 14

a) a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community.
b) brought both groups together
c) helped show what the other group was really like

Question 15

Hull House p627 PEO

Answer 15

a) a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
b) improved the lives of some of the poor
c) helped the poor

Question 16

Pure Food and Drug Act p629 POL

Answer 16

a) a federal law that provided inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines
b) made food more safe
c) act still impactful today

Question 17

National Consumers’ League p629 WXT

Answer 17

a) a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.
b) improved market and workplace
c) helped impact the market

Question 18

Women’s Trade Union League p629 PEO

Answer 18

a) an organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
b) helped try to get female workers more support
c) organized female workers

Question 19

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire p629 PEO

Answer 19

a) the one of deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history.
b) many people died from it
c) huge impact on fire codes and prevention

Question 20

Scott Joplin p617 CUL

Answer 20

a) an African-American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime Writers
b) important entertainment icon
c) had huge musical impact

Question 21

Tom Johnson p624 PEO

Answer 21

a) Progressive who reformed the political process. Reformed public ownership of utilities in Chicago.
b) made many important changes
c) helped reform politics

Question 22

Jacob Riis p625 PEO

Answer 22

a) a Danish American social reformer, “muckraking” journalist and social documentary photographer.
b) helped cause change
c) highlighted societal problems

Question 23

Jane Addams p627 PEO

Answer 23

a) a pioneer American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace.
b) helped social workers
c) had a great impact on all the things she was involved in

Question 24

Margaret Sanger p628 PEO

Answer 24

a) an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States
b) made contraceptives a non-taboo subject
c) helped fight for women’s rights

Question 25

Upton Sinclair p629 PEO

Answer 25

a) an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle.
b) helped impact society by bringing up issues
c) inspired pure food and drug act

Question 26

Florence Kelley p629 PEO

Answer 26

a) a social and political reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children’s rights is widely regarded today.
b) helped improve working conditions
c) many laws inspired by her are still in use today