Urbanization

Question 1

What is Urbanization?

Answer 1

The growth of cities

Question 2

What does rural mean?

Answer 2

Out in the country, farm

Question 3

What is another nickname for Chicago?

Answer 3

“The Windy City”

Question 4

Who was William Le Baron Jenney?

Answer 4

The person who made the modern skyscraper

Question 5

Who was D.H. Burnham?

Answer 5

The first architect who used steel as a super structure

Question 6

Who was Frank Loyd Wright?

Answer 6

The person who created “Prairie House” school of architecture
he believed in organic architecture and that FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM!

Question 7

Who was Louis Sullivan?

Answer 7

Created the Chicago School of Agriculture?
Believed that FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

Question 8

How did Louis Sullivan and Frank Loyd Wright think differently?

Answer 8

Louis Sullivan believed that form follows function while Frank Loyd Wright believed that function follows form.

Question 9

What is another nickname for New York City?

Answer 9

“Gotham”

Question 10

Who was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi?

Answer 10

The person who made the Statue of Liberty?

Question 11

What was Ellis Island?

Answer 11

The place the immigrants were processed, very business and chaotic and uncomfortable for immigrants.

Question 12

What does Steerage mean?

Answer 12

Steerage was the poorest part of the ship. It was often dirty and filthy and illness spread around. It was also often near the bottom of the ship. Cows were also brought in steerage and made it dirty too.

Question 13

What was the trip like for immigrants coming into the U.S.?

Answer 13

The drip was dreadful and dangerous. People were crammed into tight spaces and got sickly.

Question 14

What were “dumbells”?

Answer 14

Dumbells were living quarters in Ellis Island. Crowded, stale air, smells bad, fire hazard bc they were so close that if one catches on fire they all do.

Question 15

Who is Jacob Riis?

Answer 15

The man who wrote “How the Other Half Lives.”

Question 16

What are the 6 main reasons for urbanization?

Answer 16

industrialization, mechanization, economic opportunity, urban culture, African Americans, gateways for immigrants

Question 17

What is xenophobia

Answer 17

A fear of strangers (immigrants)

Question 18

What is nativism?

Answer 18

Favoritism towards natives usually for racist reasons.

Question 19

Why were the “new immigrants” undesirable people?

Answer 19

Because they spoke a different language, had a different culture, and religion

Question 20

What was the American Protective Association?

Answer 20

created by the old immigrants, they were nativists who didn’t trust the new immigrants, their goal was to restrict immigration.

Question 21

Who was Thomas Nas?

Answer 21

Famous for creating the two political party symbols, the elephant and the donkey and he created the political cartoon.

Question 22

Who was William Tweed?

Answer 22

The person in charge of Tammany Hall

Question 23

What was Tammany Hall?

Answer 23

A political machine that would take advantage of immigrants to gain their political votes and steal their money through taxes. This could be used to gain control over whole town.

Question 24

What are some key differences between Ellis Island and Angel Island?

Answer 24

Ellis Island had mostly European immigrants while Angel Island had mostly Asian immigrants.
Ellis Island had about 12 million immigrants come through while Angel Island only had about 300,000 immigrants come through.
Ellis Island rejected A LOT less immigrants than Angel Island.

Question 25

What are some key similarities between Ellis Island and Angel Island?

Answer 25

Both had tests and exams for the immigrants to take.
Both were islands
Both rejected or denied sickly immigrants
Both had mostly immigrants who traveled on ship in steerage.

Question 26

What were the three disenfranchisement laws?

Answer 26

Literacy Law, Poll Tax, and Grandfather Clause.

Question 27

What did Plessy V. Ferguson state?

Answer 27

That segregation was legal so long as the facilities were equal.

Question 28

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 28

Abolished slavery

Question 29

What did the 14th amendment do?

Answer 29

Granted formerly enslaved people citizenship

Question 30

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 30

Gave male slaves the right to vote / sufferage

Question 31

Who could vote in America?

Answer 31

All males who were American citizens, including slaves.

Question 32

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 32

Laws that enforced segregation in the south and were “anti-black”

Question 33

What were the problems of urbanization?

Answer 33

Overcrowding, Crime, Pollution

Question 34

Who created Tuskegee University?

Answer 34

Booker T. Washington

Question 35

What did Booker T. Washington belive?

Answer 35

He was a social Darwinist that believed you get what you want by working hard.

Question 36

What did W.E.B. Du Bois believe in?

Answer 36

Believed in equality and that the former slaves should be considered equal to everyone else.

Question 37

What was Tuskegee Institutes goal?

Answer 37

To help educate formerly enslaved people.

Question 38

Who was William Tweed and what was he in charge of?

Answer 38

He was in charge of Tamany Hall.

Question 39

Who was Thomas Nass and who was he to William Tweed?

Answer 39

Nass was the person who made the political party symbols and wrote political cartoons against Tamany Hall, was William Tweed’s enemy/rival.

Question 40

What did Jane Adams do?

Answer 40

Founded the Hull House, a settelement home meant to help immigrants and americanize or naturalize them.

Question 41

Who was Jacob Riis?

Answer 41

Wrote “How the Other Half Lives” had a large impact on people because they weren’t aware.