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A New Urban Culture
Vocabulary from sections 3 & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tall buildings constructed of steel | skyscrapers |
| area located on the outskirts of the city | suburb |
| sells a variety of goods in one location | department store |
| variety show - comedians, singing, dancing, acrobats... | vaudeville |
| lively, rhythmic music | ragtime |
| ragtime composer | Scott Joplin |
| wrote marches | John Philip Sousa |
| required children to attend school | compulsory education |
| church sponsored schools | parochial schools |
| camp that provided instruction in politics, art & philosophy, sent out traveling companies | Chautauqua Society |
| type of reporting that uses crime, scandal, gossip to attract readers | yellow journalism |
| low priced paperbacks | dime novels |
| people who tried to show life as it really was in their writing or art | realists |
| speech & habits of a particular region | local color |