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| 1146702788 | A young black pianist who sold more than half a million copies of ragtime music a year for a penny each, who earned the name "Maple Leaf Rag" and considered the leader of the entertainment industry, dying in 1917. | Scott Joplin | 1 | |
| 1146702789 | A promise of good wages and a broad range of jobs, mainly directed toward countryside men and women to come to the city | "pull factors" | 2 | |
| 1146702790 | A section of the flooding numbers of immigrants, including Italians, Slavs, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and Japanese. | "New Immigrants" | 3 | |
| 1146702791 | Reasons for immigration to America, including overpopulation, crop failure, famine, religious persecution, violence, and industrial depression. | "Push Factors" | 4 | |
| 1146702792 | Established in 1855 on New York State's Manhattan Island, this was an immigrant admission facility where currency was exchanged, railroad tickets could be purchased and lodging could be arranged. | Castle Garden | 5 | |
| 1146702793 | A immigrant admission facility located in New York harbor that was established in 1892 by the federal government, where currency was exchanged, railroad tickets could be purchased and lodging could be arranged. | Ellis Island | 6 | |
| 1146702794 | A immigration admission facility established in San Francisco Bay in 1910, where currency was exchanged, railroad tickets could be purchased and lodging could be arranged for the West Coast. | Angel's Island | 7 | |
| 1146702795 | The tendency of immigrants to settle near where their predecessors had. | "Chain migration" | 8 | |
| 1146702796 | Long, narrow buildings subdivided by landlords that where packed with too many residents, usually becoming slums and ghettos. | tenement | 9 | |
| 1146702797 | A tenement that prevented its residents from renting elsewhere because of public prejudices, pressure, and laws. | ghetto | 10 | |
| 1146702798 | Residential housing that had to bear the noise, pollution, and odors of tanneries, foundries, factories, and packing houses. | Industrial Districts | 11 | |
| 1146702799 | Built usually for families of a certain income, these would contain subdivisions of similar lot sizes and housing designs, usually a two story house, with a front porch thirty feet from the sidewalk. | Suburb | 12 | |
| 1146702800 | A quote from Irish writer James F. Muirhead that epitomized the urban American living conditions of rich and poor. | "land of contrasts" | 13 | |
| 1146702801 | Written by Henry Ward Beecher and other advisees, this was a set of social ideas (such as the rich would lead America's financial success) embraced by the wealthy during the reign of Queen Victoria in England. It supported that man's nature was malleable, that work had social value, and that manners and the integration of art into society are key to true civilization; it widened the gap between the rich and poor. | Victorian Morality | 14 | |
| 1146702802 | Supporters of "the woman's sphere", and Victorian morality in considering domestic production decisions. | The Cult of Domesticity | 15 | |
| 1146702803 | A idealistic belief that the home was a woman's place of work, where she would take care of the kids and build a strong artistic environment to culturally improve the family. | "The Woman's Sphere" | 16 | |
| 1146702804 | Began in the late 1800s, these were large shopping centers that attracted shoppers by advertising price deductions and sales; were mainly directed toward women, the majority of shoppers, and was seen as a form of entertainment. | Department Stores | 17 | |
| 1146702805 | Creators of giant department stores in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. | Rowland H. Macy, John Wanamaker, Marshall Field | 18 | |
| 1146702806 | Instead of focusing solely on teaching Latin and Greek, theology, logic and math, these would offer many courses in a wide spectrum of subjects, establish professional programs, and encourage the faculty to pursue basic research. | Research Universities | 19 | |
| 1146702807 | American, urban controlling governments, which tried to alleviate city suffrage, but caused corruption in politics and hindered social services. | Political Machines | 20 | |
| 1146702808 | A Democratic, political machine that controlled New York politics from the 1830s to 1930s. | Tammany Hall | 21 | |
| 1146702809 | New York's Tammany Hall's boss who threw the city into $70 million of debt after 60,000 patronage positions were formed, was convicted of fraud and extortion, thrown in jail and died (after being caught in Spain) in 1878. | William "Mager" Tweed | 22 | |
| 1146702810 | A German cartoonist of Harper's Weekly who satirically depicted Tweed's fraudulence | Thomas Nast | 23 | |
| 1146702811 | Creator of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in 1843, he encourage poor families to change their pattern of living. | Robert M. Hartley | 24 | |
| 1146702812 | Creator of the New York children's Aid Society in 1853, he established dorms, reading rooms, and workshops for boys to learn practical skills while shipping orphans off the streets to families in the country to work as farm hands. | Charles Loring Brace | 25 | |
| 1146702813 | Originally created in England, these provided housing and recreation activities for men and women while establishing strong moralistic behavior through curfews and other rules against certain behavior. | Young Men and Women Christian Association (YM/WCA) | 26 | |
| 1146702814 | Originally established by Methodist William Booth in England, this organization provided food, shelter, and temporary employment for families, while attracting the poor with parades, and lively preaching in order to teach strong virtues of temperance, hard-work, and self-discipline. | The Salvation Army | 27 | |
| 1146702815 | Founder of the New York Charity Organization Society, she sent trained and employed women to tenements to counsel families how to improve their lives. | Josephine Shaw Lowell | 28 | |
| 1146702816 | A dry-goods clerk and founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, he called for the closing of gambling and lottery operations and censor obscene publications. | Anthony Comstock | 29 | |
| 1146702817 | A New York Presbyterian minister who founded the City Vigilance League to clean the city of rampant evils. | Charles Parkhurst | 30 | |
| 1146702818 | Started by Washington Gladden in the 1870s, this was aimed against social injustices by uniting Christian men and women to do so. | Social Gospel movement | 31 | |
| 1146702819 | Creator of the Hull House, she led the first settlement-house for immigrants. | Jane Addams | 32 | |
| 1146702820 | An immigrant social center, it included plays, sponsored art projects, sponsored recreational and athletic programs, English classes, civics, cooking, dressmaking, a Kindergarden, a laundry, an employment bureau, a day nursery, and issued legal aid and health care. | Hull House | 33 | |
| 1146702821 | A former worker at the Hull House, she was a chief factory inspector for Illinois in 1893, showing the importance of settlement-houses in the future Progressive Era. | Florence Kelley | 34 | |
| 1146702822 | Born into Irish lineage and called "the Boston Strong Boy," he was the greatest boxer in America; even though he refused to fight blacks, he fought for the heavyweight championship belt against Australian Peter Jackson, ending with the return of the belt to Police Gazette. | John L. Sullivan | 35 | |
| 1146702823 | This was called as the rise of women clubs, growth of women in college, and the 1890s bicycle fad. | "New Woman" | 36 | |
| 1146702824 | He attacked aristocratic literary conventions and explored new forms of fiction while broadening its popularity. | Mark Twain/Samuel Langhorne Clemens | 37 | |
| 1146702825 | Writer of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and skeptic of literary conventions. | Stephen Crane | 38 | |
| 1146702826 | Written by Stephen Crane, it told of a girls story of living in an urban slum who ultimately kills herself; it is considered the first naturalistic American novel. | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | 39 | |
| 1146702827 | An economist and writer of The Theory of the Leisure, he critiqued the lifestyles of capitalist elites as people who widen the gap between the rich and poor. | Thorstein Veblen | 40 | |
| 1146702828 | The inspiration to look forward to the future. | Modernism | 41 | |
| 1146702829 | An architect of Chicago, he designed the modernist "prairie-school" household, which created a sense of spaciousness compared to the three story Victorian household. | Frank Lloyd Wright. | 42 | |
| 1146702830 | President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, she believed that women were compassionate and nurturing by nature, and help dissolve the assumption of women's "separate spheres"; she was against all forms of alcohol. | Frances Willard | 43 | |
| 1146702831 | Through her novel The Awakening, she challenged societal conventions of women's role in marriage. | Kate Chopin | 44 | |
| 1146702832 | He urged the sense of order, decorum, self-discipline, and civic loyalty, also believing in punctuality and precise scheduling. He spoke of instilling centralized administration, compulsory-attendance laws, and a tenure system to prevent political favoritism and parental pressure from inhibiting the school function. | William Torrey Harris | 45 |
