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they thought the regulations were unnecessary burdens that would drive manufacturers away

7. Why did New York City government and Tammany Hall scorn regulations for fire and other safety factors?

June Bug

8. What did Curtiss name his fixed-wing biplane?

the number of working hours in NYC was less than those in Upstate

5. How did the number of working hours in New York City contrast with the number of hours people worked upstate?

athletic and independent

5. Name two of the characteristics of the "New Woman."

frances perkins and alfred e smith

5. Name two of the four people whose careers were launched by the two fires in New York in March 1911.

electricity

5. What did the Pan American Exposition highlight?

staying at home to take care of the children and taking the kids for walks/to the parks

5. What two activities shaped married women's leisure time?

their low weight to horse power ratio and their high performance

5. What were Curtiss's motorcycle engines known for?

because they needed the extra money

5. Why did parents oppose child labor restrictions?

10%

6. About what percentage of their weekly income did workingmen spend on beer, liquor, tobacco, and movie and theater tickets?

they sang songs or recited poems/novels

6. How did women counteract the monotony of the workday?

1930

6. In what year did Curtiss's 1907 record as the "fastest man on earth" on a motorcycle get beaten by another motorcycle?

a fashionable women's blouse

6. What is a shirtwaist?

racial superiority

6. What kind of concepts did the Pan American Exposition reinforce?

took orphan/neglected children and placed them with families who lived on farms

6. What was the Orphan Train movement?

80-90%

8. What percentage of working women during the period from 1880 to 1920 lived with parents or relatives?

Unions and Child Welfare Organizations

7. From what two kinds of organizations did the impetus for changing child labor laws come from?

the lure of saloons

7. What did wives and mothers see as a threat to making ends meet and the survival of their families?

sexual vulnerability

7. What was one arena in particular that most women experienced in their workplaces that men did not?

Alexander Graham Bell

7. Who invited Curtiss and several other aeronautical pioneers to join him in the Aerial Experiment Association in 1907?

President William McKinley

7. Who was shot at the Pan American Exposition?

Theodore Roosevelt

8. Which New York State governor became president right after the Pan American Exposition?

German

8. Which group of immigrants spent the most money on amusements?

Lillian Wald

8. Who established the Henry Street Settlement House in 1893?

clara lemlich

8. Who was one of the primary leaders of the "shirtwaist uprising" of 1909-1910?

as a headquarters for mobile nurses

9. How did the Henry Street Settlement House begin?

6 minutes, 30 minutes

9. How long did it take for the firemen to arrive at the Asch Building, and how long did it take them to put out the fire?

treating

9. What does our author call the tendency of women to look to men for financial assistance and gifts?

Gas and state insurance industries

9. What two industries did Charles Evans Hughes try to reform during his governorship?

American-Born

9. Which group of immigrant men spent the least amount of their leisure hours with their families?

Scientific American

9. Which prestigious journal offered a trophy and cash prize for the first publicly witnessed manned flight of over a kilometer?

NAVY

13. To which branch of the service did Curtiss promote his airplanes?

socially prominent new yorkers

13. What kind of people comprised the New York Child Labor Committee?

immigrant machine politics and the Welfare State

13. What two areas did Alfred E. Smith bridge?

William Sulzer

13. Which New York governor was impeached in 1913 for violating campaign finance laws?

it violated the workers right to contract how they pleased. 14th amendment

14. During the early 1900s, courts often overturned industrial regulations on the basis of what Amendment and what part of the amendment?

Belle Moskowitz

14. Who was Alfred E. Smith's most valued advisor?

masculinity

4. What was the ethos strengthened by the leisure activities of workingmen?

buffalo

4. Where was the Pan American Exposition of 1901 held?

Hammondsport, NY

4. Where was the first airplane factory in the nation established?

because children were competition for jobs

4. Why did the unions support child labor restrictions?

improved sanitation and health conditions

1. What did the 30% drop in the death rate during the period from 1880 to 1920 signify?

Finch-Hill Factory Act

1. What was the law regarding children's labor passed in 1903?

Theodore Roosevelt

1. Who was the governor who began the era we call the "Progressive Era" in New York State?

Glen Curtiss

1. Who was the pioneering aviator from Hammondsport, NY?

women's life cycle, and the family economy

1. According to Peiss, what two things shaped the way women experienced the sexual division of leisure?

she was visiting a friend nearby

1. How did Frances Perkins learn about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? What did Frances Perkins say was born the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?

clubs and poolrooms

1. Name two of the places that young working class men began to frequent in the 1890s in addition to saloons, theaters, and dances.

sunday was not seen as a rest day to employees, rather a day for fun and to stay out late so on monday they came to work worn and frazzled

1. What did employers mean by "blue Monday"?

to secure stronger child labor laws and to encourage and assist the authorities in their enforcement

12. The New York Child Labor Committee had three purposes. Name two of them.

canners

12. What type of factory objected to the 1913 legislative bill to restrict workers to ten hour days, a six-day workweek, and to exclude children under the age of fourteen?

the real world at the Fulton Fish Market

12. Where did Alfred E. Smith say he received his education?

Henry Ford

12. Who made the services of his expert patent lawyer to Curtiss?

the exploitation of and disregard for the poor and innocent

10. What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire come to symbolize?

Charles Evans Hughes

10. Which governor of New York "shaped New York's Progressivism"?

Joseph Pulitzer

10. Who offered a prize of $10,000 for the person who would fly from New York to Albany, as part of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration in 1909?

Florence Kelley

10. Who was the head of the National Consumers League?

that those products were made under clean and healthful conditions

11. What did the White Label issued by the National Consumers League mean?

the factory investigating commission

11. What was the commission created by the bill drafted by Alfred E. Smith and Robert Wagner?

Alfred E. Smith

11. Which of the governors of New York was a Tammany loyalist?

Orville and Wilbur Wright

11. Who stifled innovation and became obsessed with enforcing their patent rights in US and European courts?

in the State Capital Building on the 3rd floor in an assembly meeting room near the State Library

15. Where did the State Capitol fire break out on March 29, 1911, and what was it near?

Belle Moskowitz

15. Who oversaw most of Alfred E. Smith's Reconstruction Commission?

The New Deal and the Welfare State

16. What two programs did the social welfare program that Alfred E. Smith and Belle Moskowitz preview?

Watchman Samuel Abbott

16. Who died in the fire at the State Capitol in Albany on March 29, 1911?

the election of a new senator - FDR and it highlighted the weak leadership of Governor Dix

17. The fire in the State Capitol had three major consequences, according to the author. Name two of the individuals and the changes relative to them.

John Dewey

17. Who was the dean of Progressive education at Columbia University?

making agriculture more efficient, keeping youth on the farms, and rural education

18. What did Liberty Hyde Bailey, Dean at Cornell's school of agriculture, promote?

that it was from faulty wiring but it was from careless smoking

18. What did the governor say caused the fire and what actually caused the fire?

the original state constitution and abraham lincoln's draft of the emancipation proclamation

19. What two precious documents did the first commissioner, Andrew S. Draper save by storing them in his office safe?

Clara Lemlich

19. Who instigated the Uprising of Twenty Thousand?

young and single

2. What two features describe the typical working woman of 1900?

Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co

2. What was the first business Glenn Curtiss engaged in?

domestic labor

2. What was the least desirable kind of work for young immigrant women (although widely available)?

walks, visit friends, or reading the penny press

2. Where did the poorest of people spend their leisure time

Alfred E. Smith

2. Which governor ended the "progressive era" in New York?

Gov Benjamin B. Odell

2. Which governor signed the Finch-Hill Factory Act into effect?

the education department

20. To what governmental department did the state historian's office move?

higher pay and reduced working hours

20. What are two improvements that the Women's Trade Union League strikers wanted?

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

21. At what company was the worst workplace disaster until September 11, 2001?

The Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)

21. What two acts did Robert Wagner sponsor, making him one of the most distinguished US senators from New York?

The New Deal and employment agencies and she formulated the first overtime and minimum wage laws

22. Name two important projects Frances Perkins oversaw as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Rose Schneiderman

22. Who believed that workers needed more than just their basic needs met?

Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"

23. What book influenced the activism of Frances Perkins?

Frances Perkins

24. Whose activism for working class women led her to the cabinet of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

industrialization

25. What altered the urban landscape during this period?

turned them into criminals

26. What did prohibition do to law-abiding citizens?

turned it into a mockery

27. What did prohibition do to the justice system?

fun and glamorous

28. What did prohibition make illicit drinking seem like?

the Red Scare

29. What do we call the anti-radical hysteria of this period?

by addressing legislation and benevolent organizations

3. How did people of the era address the complexities of urban and industrial growth?

dance halls, amusement parks, movie theaters,

3. Name two of three types of commercialized leisure young women engaged in.

14 years old

3. What age did children have to be to work in a factory after the Finch-Hill Factory Act went into effect?

shorter working days for female wage earners

3. What was the general trend of the period from 1880 to 1920 relative to women's labor?

a bicycle messenger for Western Union

3. What was the second business Glenn Curtiss engaged in?

saloons and lodges

3. What were two of the three the most popular forms of workingmen's recreation?

that it would change the church, home, marriage, civility, and the American Way of Life

30. What did people think would happen if there were a Bolshevik Revolution in the U.S.?

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4. How many people died during the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?

consumption and affirmation of dating outside parental control

4. Name two of the ideologies that "cheap amusements" embodied for young immigrant women?

protective legislation

4. What kind of legislation contributed to the general decline in hours?