Chapter 5

By the 1900's, where were middle-class American's most likely to live?

• in a mansion

• in the suburbs

• in tenements

• in settlement houses

Why were skyscrapers built?

• They replaced the tenements

• They allowed the city to grow, but upward

• City leaders understood that the cities had to have a better image.

• The land set aside for parks had to be made up for

Which answer best describes "progressive education"?

• Most children were required by law to go to school

• school was possible only for the middle class and wealthy.

• Teachers stressed memorization of facts

• Teachers sought to encourage "learning by doing"

What change in people's lives caused them to have increased leisure time?

• incomes increased sharply

• Immigrants took most of the jobs

• Farms became smaller because of a shortage of land

• Industrial jobs did not require round-the-clock work as farms did

Which style of music was related to jazz?

• ragtime

• symphony orchestra

• rousing marches

• opera

Who developed the first basketball game?

• James Naismith

• MJ

• Winslow Homer

• Childe Hassam

a type of music characterized by syncopation in the melody

• ragtime

• jazz

• rap

• pop

What does HBCU stand for?

Booker T. Washington founded what college in 1881?

• Tuskegee Institute

• Oakwood College

• Howard University

• Hampton Institute

highly populated, poor, run-down, urban area

• slum

• suburb

• urban

• Miami