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Flashcard Set for CH 25.5 VOCABULARY
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History
8th Grade
04/29/2014

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Urbanization

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Textbook Definition:The growth of cities.
Sentence: Industrialization brought with it urvanization.

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Tenement

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Textbook Definition:Cheap apartment buildings.
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A poor family might occupy just one or two rooms in a tenement.

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Skyscraper

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Textbook Definition:A very tall building of many stories.
 Sentence: Builders constructed skyscrapers that rose ten or more stories into the air.

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Hamlin Garland

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Textbook Definition: American novelist, poet, physical researcher.

Sentence: He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.

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Joseph Asch

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Textbook Definition: A writer
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Building Code

 

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Textbook Definition: A set of rukes that specify the minimum standards for constructed standards for constructed objects.

Sentence: Building codes are generally intended to be applied by architects, engineers, constructors, and regulators.

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Settlement House

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Textbook Definition: The neighborhood center

Sentence:Stanton Coit founded the first settlement house.
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Jane Addams

 

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Textbook Definition:Pioneer settlement social worker, author, public philospher.
Sentence: Jane Addams was one of the most prominent reformers of the progressive era

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Frank Sprague

 

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Textbook Definition:American naval officer 

Sentence: He contributed to the developement of electric elevators.

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Frederick Law Olmstead

 

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Textbook Definition:American landscape architect, journalist.
Sentence: He is recognized as founder of the American landscape architecture.

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Hull House

 

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Textbook Definition:A settlement house in the United States that was cofounded by 1889.
 Sentence: The Hull House is located in Chicago

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R.H. Macy

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Textbook Definition: American businessman

Sentence: He founded the department store Macy's

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Vaudeville

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Textbook Definition:Theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
Sentence: It was popular in the early 1800's to the the early 1900's in the U.S.

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George M. Cohan

 

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Textbook Definition: An American entertainer, playwright,composer,singer, and dancer.
 Sentence: He gave the country the greatest song of the first World War.

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Marx Brothers

 

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Textbook Definition:A family commedy act that enjoyed success in vauedville.
 Sentence: They were becoming famous as the motion pictures were becoming "talkies."

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Will Rogers

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Textbook Definition: An American cowboy, humorist

Sentence: Roger's rope act led to success in the Ziegfield Follies.

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Ragtime

 

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Textbook Definition: Musical genre that is enjoyed during the 1800s to 1900s.
Sentence: Its main characteristic trait is the "ragged rhythm"
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Scott Joplin

 

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Textbook Definition:African American composer and pianist.
 Sentence:  He achieved his fame with ragtime compositions.

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John Philip Sousa

 

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Textbook Definition:American composer and conductor of the late romantic era.
 Sentence: Sousa began his career playing the violin.

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Frank Thompson

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Textbook Definition:Democratic party politician from New Jersey
 Sentence:He represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district.

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James Naismith

 

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Textbook Definition:Canadian American sports coach.
Sentence: He invented the sport f basketball in 1891

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Works Cited
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Hart, Diane. The United States through Industrialism. Palo Alto, CA: TCI, Teacher's Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print.
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