Big Cities - Like Chicago and New York - Quiz
  • 1. urbanization
A) The growth of cities
B) the growth of industry
C) is a community center for people in cities.
D) slum building built quickly and cheaply
  • 2. tenements
A) is a community center for people in cities.
B) a system of trains used to move people around cities.
C) slum buildings built quickly and cheaply
D) someone who "rake up" or points out, unpleasant truth
  • 3. rapid transit
A) a very tall building
B) slum building built quickly and cheaply
C) The growth of cities
D) a system of trains used to move people around cities.
  • 4. slum
A) a poor, crowded part of a city
B) a system of trains used to move people around cities.
C) a ditch where iron is poured
D) a rich part of town
  • 5. Jane Addams & Ellen Gates Star
A) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
B) created the Statue of Liberty
C) invented electricity
D) wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, ....
  • 6. skyscraper
A) a very tall building
B) tools to remove smog from the cities atmosphere
C) a nickname for a balloon like craft use before airplanes came into wider use
D) slum building built quickly and cheaply
  • 7. settlement house
A) is a community center for people in cities.
B) a nick name for the first bank in the United States
C) another name for City Hall
D) the island where the Statue of Liberty is located
  • 8. Fredic Auguste Bartholdi
A) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
B) opened the first french restaurant in the United States
C) created the Statue of Liberty
D) wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, ....
  • 9. Emma Lazarus
A) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
B) The wife of Lazarus in the bible
C) created the Statue of Liberty
D) wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, ....
  • 10. Hull House
A) The growth of cities
B) a house were beans and peas are store while the hulls dry out
C) slum building built quickly and cheaply
D) one of the first settlement houses in the United States.
  • 11. progressives
A) laws that protect workers
B) is a community center for people in cities.
C) wanted to fix what they thought was wrong with the country
D) slum building built quickly and cheaply
  • 12. labor laws
A) law to protect factory owners
B) laws that protect workers
C) a system of trains used to move people around cities.
D) a list of laws requiring works to give 50% of their pay to the factory owner to assure continued employment
  • 13. muckraker
A) someone who "rakes up" or points out, unpleasant truth
B) wanted to fix what they thought was wrong with the country
C) sanitation workers
D) The growth of cities
  • 14. industrialization
A) the growth of industry
B) a system of trains used to move people around cities.
C) the creation of farming communities
D) first contact with the Chic-a-go Indians
  • 15. NAACP
A) a very tall building
B) National Association Against Corporal Punishment
C) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D) The growth of cities
  • 16. Theodore Roosevelt
A) worked with Congress to pass two laws to make food safer
B) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
C) created the Statue of Liberty
D) wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, ....
  • 17. The Nineteenth Amendment
A) laws that protect workers
B) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
C) guaranteed women the right to vote
D) insure freedom of speech
  • 18. The Eighteenth Amendment
A) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
B) insure the right to bear arms
C) laws that protect workers
D) made it against the law to make or sell alcoholic beverages
  • 19. Booker T. Washington
A) started a school to educate & give jobs to African Americans
B) wrote "Give me your tired, your poor, ....
C) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
D) created the Statue of Liberty
  • 20. Austin Peay
A) pushed legislators to create Tennessee's first state park
B) opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889
C) slum building built quickly and cheaply
D) created the Statue of Liberty
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