The Age of the City

5. term for the fear and resentment among Americans towards the "new" immigrants
8. most popular form of urban entertainment; was this form of theater
11. ________ stores transformed shopping into a glamorous and exciting activity
12. the art school that portrayed the grim reality of modern life
15. most popular sport of the era
16. immigrants today, just as in the past, provide employers with ________ labor (opposite of expensive)
17. even today, the powerful ________ family controls mass media outlets (newspapers)
19. most IMPORTANT (subjective) form of MASS entertainment (until the invention of the radio/tv)
20. one of the many universities started by business and finantial tycoons (this one in NC)

1. ______ stores are able to sell manufactured goods at lower prices than local, independent stores because these new stores had so much more volume
2. mortality were all associated with the widespread ________(poverty)of the cities
3. "time spent amusing oneself in nonproductive pursuits"- sometimes associated with laziness and sloth -- egads!!
4. due to ________, cities grew sevenfold; otherwise, cities would not have grown in numbers at all
6. "miserable abode" for the laboring people of the cities
7. the ______ day of July was an appreciated day off for immigrant laborers
9. Sumner was a major advocate of the NOW discredited theory of _______ Darwinism
10. Sears and Montgomery Ward were able to sell products to isolated rural dwellers through the publishing of bulky ________
13. the urban "________" (like Tammany Hall) was one of America's most distinctive political institutions
14. Germans and ______ advanced economically more rapidly than other ethnic immigrant groups
16. representing the centers of wealth snd affluence in the late 19th century
18. the growing popularity of literature among the "high" cultured ________ of the time brought people together to talk about books