Unit 1 lecture 3

Question 1

Margaret Sanger

Answer 1

Was a nurse & seen giving birth out of control (People having like 10 kids) & tried to slow it down

Question 2

_______ couldnt escape the urban core (like the small twon like china town) (couldnt escape the poverty)

Answer 2

Urban Dweller (housing became more expensive)

Question 3

What was the tallest building in New York City in 1913?

Answer 3

Woolworth building

Question 4

Middle class reformers

Answer 4

Wanted to be educate & do good things in the world

Question 5

What occured in youth culture?

Answer 5

Courtship where there was a change in dating style like parent watching over their kids dates more often

Question 6

Social Settlement movement

Answer 6

Began in england & seeked to imporve living for middle class

Question 7

Low Brow Culture

Answer 7

Partcipated in county island, movies, etc

Question 8

Vaudeville

Answer 8

Was a form of enterainment that include dancer & etc, & people hours began to drop & work spend tim ein parks & amesuments parks for their leisures

Question 9

What happened in Modern Cities

Answer 9

Shift from agrarian / rural to industrial/urban & became center of experimention like different culters, soical groups, politics, etc

Question 10

What did Electricity allow more of?

Answer 10

Allowed the shift from gaslight to eletricity in 1870s, allowed more lighting & elevators, etc

Question 11

New York Tenement Hosuing Act of 1901

Answer 11

Was to improve life in housing

Question 12

What are instant cities?

Answer 12

Cities that pop up over night due to techonological advancements& industries there

Question 13

Boodie

Answer 13

Were kickbacks

Question 14

Civil service reform wanted what?

Answer 14

Wanted skilled people for skilled jobs

Question 15

Chicago

Answer 15

Became know for skyscrapers & the chicago school was one of them which was led by artecht louis H. sullivan

Question 16

Wards

Answer 16

ALerman were the highest they picked the ward boss & the precint captain

Question 17

Who rules the way NYC operated during this time

Question 18

Triangle shirtwaste fire

Answer 18

Fire that was tied to a strike in NYC because people were being paid bad

Question 19

Progessive reform

Answer 19

Was the movement from service reform & fought for public health initatives like more sanitations in modern sewage, drainage system, etc & foguth for food & drug regulations in 1906

Question 20

Progessive reformers also pushed for what?

Answer 20

City parks & play grounds, wanted city parks to inspire low class, pushed for the end of prostitution (Also called “white slavery”) & red light cities’districts with illegal bars prostitutions, etc

Question 21

George Washington Plunkitt

Answer 21

More famous member of the politcal machine in NYC (Called something “Honest Graft” which was like inside trading)

Question 22

High Brow Culture

Answer 22

Particpated in things like art musemums, opera, etc

Question 23

How were urban housing like?

Answer 23

Cramped & in a dumbell shape with poor lighting & air ventilation

Question 24

Skyscraper

Answer 24

Became more common & where techonogical innovations & were made of steel

Question 25

Cornstock Law

Answer 25

Said couldnt put anything obscene in people mail (things that told you when not to have sex or to use condoms, how to have a family, etc)

Question 26

Subcultures

Answer 26

Intecullutal groups like feminst, gays, etc

Question 27

Urban refomers were mostly _______

Answer 27

Middle Class