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| 54239171 | Home Life Insurance Building | The first skyscraper created in Chicago in 1885 | 0 | |
| 54239172 | Louis Sullivan | This man constructed the first skyscraper | 1 | |
| 54239173 | Industrial Jobs | These attracted americans from the rural areas to the cities | 2 | |
| 54239174 | San Francisco | This city had the first form of mass transit, the cable car | 3 | |
| 54239175 | Theodore Dreiser | This man wrote Sister Carrie, a novel centered around the consumerism of a rural girl | 4 | |
| 54239176 | Brooklyn Bridge | This structure was an engineering marvel when it was created in New York in 1883 | 5 | |
| 54239177 | Trash | This was a huge problem in the cities and almost non-existent in the countryside | 6 | |
| 54239178 | Dumbbell Tenements | Tenements in the gilded age that housed many people and had an air shaft, but that proved to be more dangerous than regular apartments | 7 | |
| 54239179 | Richmond | This city had the first electric trolleys | 8 | |
| 54239180 | Boston | This city had the first subway | 9 | |
| 54239181 | Cholera | This was the #1 killer of the age and was introduced to americans through unclean water | 10 | |
| 54239182 | Old Immigrants | These antebellum immigrants easily assimilated into the american way and came mostly from northern and western europe | 11 | |
| 54239183 | New Immigrants | These post-civil war immigrants began immigrating in 1880 and came from mostly eastern and southern europe. These immigrants did not assimilate as easily as old immigrants | 12 | |
| 54516881 | Social Gospel Movement | Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden were both part of this movement that insisted that the church tackle the burning social issues of the day, such as by helping the poor | 13 | |
| 54516882 | Jane Addams | This woman was part of the settlement house movement and founded the Hull House in 1889 | 14 | |
| 54516883 | Lillian Wald | This was another woman who was part of the settlement house movement and started the Henry Street Settlement in New York | 15 | |
| 54516884 | Florence Kelley | This woman was a settlement house worker who championed the protection of female workers and was against child labor | 16 | |
| 54516885 | American Protective Association | This nativist organization wanted the government to pass laws restricting or ending immigration | 17 | |
| 54516886 | 1882 | In ___, congress passed the first immigration law which banned paupers, criminals, and convicts from coming here | 18 | |
| 54516887 | 1885 | In ___, congress passed an immigration law which banned american companies from making contracts with foreign workers | 19 | |
| 54516888 | Literacy Test | In 1917, congress made it mandatory that every immigrant coming to the states must pass a ___ ____ | 20 | |
| 54516889 | Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | This law, passed in 1882, completely banned one race from coming to america | 21 | |
| 54516890 | Materialism | This, along with scientific advances, began to weaken the power of the church during the Gilded Age | 22 | |
| 54640475 | Dwight Lyman Moody | This man, part of the social gospel movement, proclaimed the gospel of kindnessand forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 | 23 | |
| 54640476 | Roman Catholic | This faith, along with the jewish faith, gained many new members as a result of new immigration | 24 | |
| 54640477 | Cardinal Gibbons | This man was popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants, as he preached American unity | 25 | |
| 54640478 | Mary Baker Eddy | This woman, founder of the church of christ, scientist (christian science), believed that praying could cure any sickness and solve any problem | 26 | |
| 54640479 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin published this controversial novel which created many divisions such as the Modernists, Fundamentalists, and Pragmatists | 27 | |
| 54640480 | Chautauqua Movement | This was a movement that was a continuation of the lyceums and consisted of famous writers giving public lectures | 28 | |
| 54640481 | Modernists | These people had beliefs that mixed science with religious faith | 29 | |
| 54640482 | Fundamentalists | These people were essentially "religious nuts" who were devoted to the word of the bible | 30 | |
| 54640483 | Normal School | This was the term for a teacher preparatory academy | 31 | |
| 54641548 | Booker T. Washington | This former ex-slave fought for black rights but avoided the issue of social equality; he believed in Blacks helping themselves first before gaining more rights and was labeled an "uncle tom" | 32 | |
| 54641549 | George Washington Carver | This man discovered hundreds of new uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans and was a student of Booker T. Washington | 33 | |
| 54641550 | W.E.B. Du Bois | This man was the first african american to receive a PhD from Harvard and demanded complete equality for blacks | 34 | |
| 54641551 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | This association was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910 | 35 | |
| 54641552 | Morrill Act of 1862 | This act provided a generous grant of the public lands to the states for support of education | 36 | |
| 54641553 | Hatch Act of 1887 | This act extended the Morrill Act of 1862 | 37 | |
| 54643796 | John Hopkins University | This university maintained the nation's first high-grade graduate school | 38 | |
| 54643797 | High Schools | This type of school was introduced in the late nineteenth century | 39 | |
| 54643798 | William James | This man helped establish the discipline of behavioral psychology, with his books Principles of Psychology (1890), The Will to Believe (1897), and Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) | 40 | |
| 54643799 | Pragmatism | This was the belief that everything has a useful purpose | 41 | |
| 54643800 | Linotype | This was invented in 1885 and made printing much more efficient | 42 | |
| 54643801 | Yellow Journalism | Journalism in which newspapers reported on wild and fantastic stories that often were false or quite exaggerated such as sex, scandal, and other human-interest stories | 43 | |
| 54643802 | Joseph Pulitzer | This was one journalistic tycoon that emerged and created the New York World | 44 | |
| 54674123 | Victoria Woodhull | This woman proclaimed free love, and together with her sister, Tennessee Claflin, wrote Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, which shocked readers with exposés of affairs, etc | 45 | |
| 54674124 | Anthony Comstock | This man waged war on the "immoral" such as obscene pictures and pills. He also had a law named after him | 46 | |
| 54674125 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | This woman published Women and Economics, a classic of feminist literature, in which she called for women to abandon their dependent status and contribute to the larger life of the community through productive involvement in the economy. She also advocated day-care centers and centralized nurseries and kitchens. | 47 | |
| 54674126 | William Randolph Hearst | This man was the journalistic tycoon of the San Francisco Examiner | 48 | |
| 54674127 | Edwin L. Godkin | This man published the New York Nation, which championed various forms of civil service reform | 49 | |
| 54674128 | Henry George | This man wrote Progress and Poverty, which undertook to solve the association of poverty with progress and came up with the idea of a graduated income tax | 50 | |
| 54674129 | Edward Bellamy | This man published Looking Backward in 1888, in which he criticized the social injustices of the day and pictured a utopian government that had nationalized big business serving the public good | 51 | |
| 54674130 | Dime Novels | These were novels that centered around the woolly wild west and were quite cheap | 52 | |
| 54674131 | General Lewis Wallace | This man wrote Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which combated the ideas and beliefs of Darwinism and reaffirmed the traditional Christian faith | 53 | |
| 54674132 | Pragmatists | Men like Henry James and Dewey were example of these people who met in the metaphysical club | 54 | |
| 54674133 | Horatio Alger | This man rags-to-riches books told that virtue, honesty, and industry were rewarded by success, wealth, and honor. His most notable book was titled Ragged Dick | 55 | |
| 54674134 | Walt Whitman | This man published a few revisions of his most famous piece, Leaves of Grass | 56 | |
| 54674135 | Emily Dickinson | This woman had mostly all of her poems published posthumously and was lyrically gifted | 57 | |
| 54674136 | Kate Chopin | This woman published The Awakening, a novel about adultery, suicide, and women's ambitions | 58 | |
| 54674137 | Samuel Clemens | This man, better known as Mark Twain, wrote many enduring american novels such as the masterpiece of satire, Huckleberry Finn | 59 | |
| 54674138 | Bret Harte | This man wrote California gold rush stories | 60 | |
| 54674139 | William Dean Howells | This man became editor in chief of the Atlantic Monthly and wrote about ordinary people and sometimes-controversial social themes | 61 | |
| 54674140 | Stephen Crane | This man wrote about the seamy underside of life in urban, industrial America (prostitutes, etc.) in such books like Maggie: Girl of the Street. He also wrote the Red Badge of Courage | 62 | |
| 54674141 | Library of Congress | This was the most prominent of the libraries that started popping up during the Gilded Age | 63 | |
| 54674142 | Henry James | This man wrote Daisy Miller and Portrait of a Lady, often making women his central characters in his novels and exploring their personalities | 64 | |
| 54674143 | Jack London | This man wrote about the wild unexplored regions of wilderness in The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Iron Heel | 65 | |
| 54674144 | Frank Norris | This man wrote The Octopus, which exposed the corruption of railroads | 66 | |
| 54674145 | Paul Lawrence Dunbar | This was a prominent african american poet | 67 | |
| 54674146 | Charles W. Chestnutt | This man was a successful african american novelist | 68 | |
| 54674804 | National American Woman Suffrage Association | This women's suffrage association was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | 69 | |
| 54674805 | Carrie Chapman Catt | This woman led a new generation of women activists | 70 | |
| 54674806 | Wyoming | This was the first state to grant women unrestricted suffrage | 71 | |
| 54674807 | Basketball | This sport was invented in 1891 by James Naismith | 72 | |
| 54674808 | Baseball | This sport was quickly becoming America's pastime | 73 | |
| 54674809 | Phineas T. Barnum | This man and James A. Bailey teamed up in 1881 to stage the "Greatest Show on Earth" | 74 | |
| 54675084 | Ida B. Wells | This woman rallied toward better treatment for Blacks as well and formed the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 | 75 | |
| 54675085 | The General Federation of Women's Clubs | This federation encouraged women's suffrage | 76 | |
| 54675086 | National Prohibition Party | This national party formed in 1869 was against the consumption of alcohol | 77 | |
| 54675087 | Women's Christian Temperance Union | This women's union called for the national prohibition of alcohol. Led by Frances E. Willard and Carrie A. Nation | 78 | |
| 54675088 | Clara Barton | This woman formed The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | 79 | |
| 54675279 | Art | James Whistler and John Singer Sargent went to Europe to study this | 80 | |
| 54675280 | Mary Cassatt | This painter painted sensitive portraits of women and children | 81 | |
| 54675281 | George Inness | This man became america's leading landscapist | 82 | |
| 54675282 | Winslow Homer | This man, along with Thomas Eakins, was a great realist painter | 83 | |
| 54675283 | Augustus Saint-Gaudens | This man was a famous sculptor | 84 | |
| 54675284 | Phonograph | This invention by Thomas Edison allowed people to listen to music | 85 | |
| 54675285 | Henry H. Richardson | This man was a fine architect whose "Richardsonian" architecture was famed around the country | 86 |
