HISTORY OF CHICAGO FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+

1 HISTORY OF CHICAGO FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Francis Davis Millet Correct Answer: Supervised Columbian Exposition (1892) and decided Chicago needed a flag to welcome evertone and represent Chicago White stripes on flag Correct Answer: Each represent a place: 1. North side 2. West side 3. South side Blue stripes on flag Correct Answer: Each represent water: 1. North branch of river (Lake Michigan) 2. South branch 4 stars on flag Correct Answer: 2 tragedies and 2 triumphs: 1. Fort Dearborn 2 2. Chicago Fire 3. Columbian Expo 4. Century of Progress What year did Chicago adopt the flag Correct Answer: 1917 Wallace Rice Correct Answer: Designed Chicago flag Native Americans Correct Answer: Illini and other tribes came and went because of marsh land. Native Americans felt that Europeans were invaders, and did not believe in ownership in land like NA did. Potawatomi was last tribe in Chicago and was kicked out in 1833 by the Treaty of Chicago Chicagou Correct Answer: The wild garlic place, name given by Native Americans Early Chicago land Correct Answer: Marsh land, muddy/swampy, not a great place to settle Marquette and Joliet 3 Correct Answer: First Europeans, Marquette wanted to spread Christianity and Joliet was looking for land (did not settle)' Jean Baptiste DuSable Correct Answer: first permanent residence of Chicago, this is a starting point for Chicago 1812 Correct Answer: Fort Dearborn 1816 Correct Answer: Fort Dearborn rebuilt 1837 Correct Answer: Chicago becomes a city, William B Ogden is first mayor 1830 Correct Answer: Chicago c]becomes a town/permanent settlement 1818 Correct Answer: Illinois becomes a state[ First immigrants- 4 Correct Answer: Irish and German Push and pull factors Correct Answer: Push: what causes you to leave your country Pull: what draws you to America/Chicago Ex: Irish push factors were potato famine and political abuse. Pull factors were land ownership and religious freedom Ellis Island and Angel Island Correct Answer: first time immigration was documented immigrants would have to go through one of these posts to come into the US or stay there until they were healthy. Ellis Island was east coast and Angel island was west. Pilsen Correct Answer: Mexican neighborhood, rich in music, art, and culture. Known for murals' Little village Correct Answer: Germans —> Czech —> Polish — Mexicans. "Mexico of the Midwest", 26th street, known for customs, rich in tradition Greektown 5 Correct Answer: Traditions are rich, Hellenism, fanciful fish, 1840 Greeks first came, hardworking. Greektown established in 1870 Lincoln Square Correct Answer: First settled by Greek, now German neighborhood. " Bridgeport Correct Answer: Where Irish immigrants settled Little Italy Correct Answer: Strong community, Taylor St., UIC campus, Hull House, Italian immigrants were more hands-on labor Uptown Correct Answer: Most diverse, vibrant nightlife Lakeview Correct Answer: Close to Lake Michigan, walkable, lavish dining old town Correct Answer: First settled by German immigrants, St. Michael's church Chinatown 6 Correct Answer: Established in 1912, Chinese pull factor from California was heavy prejudice, come to Chicago in 1870 Hull House Correct Answer: settlement house founded by Progressive reformer Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889, helped immigrants assimilate Chicago Fire Correct Answer: Mrs O'Leary's cow allegedly kicked over lantern that started fire, Chicago was made of wood so it burned quickly, October 8-10, 1871, 3.3 mi burned. Miscommunication with firefighters caused it to go on for longer. Led to Chicago Fire Academy at sight of where fire started, and new fire codes. Haymarket Riot Correct Answer: Labor dispute in Chicago that ended with a bomb being thrown at police resulting in many deaths. Led to an unfavorable public opinion of organized labor. Happened in Haymarket Square (175 N. Des Plaines St), 8 men were convicted, and 7 were put to death. Columbian Exposition Correct Answer: Chicago becomes the White City, and was chosen becomes of its quick recovery from Chicago fire. 1893, Daniel Burnham designed, held in Jackson 7 Park, Neoclassical style, new foods, beer, electricity, and Ferris wheel introduced. Serial killed H. H. Holmes Century of Progress Correct Answer: Held in 1933 during Great Depression, Robert Bartlett designed, held on Northerly Island, gave people hope during Great Depression, Art Deco style. Neoclassical vs Art Deco Correct Answer: Neoclassical: Columbian Expo, Greek/roman style, white, columns, symmetry Art Deco: decorative ideas, lack of spheres, bright colors, clean lines H. H. Holmes Correct Answer: First American Serial Killer, during Columbian Expo progressives Correct Answer: A group of reformers who worked to solve problems caused by the rapid industrial urban growth of the late 1800s. Jane Addams 8 Correct Answer: the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes, started garbage disposal system in Chicago Teddy Roosevelt Correct Answer: progressive president, creates FDA after getting inspired by jungle Uptom Sinclair Correct Answer: Wrote "The Jungle" about union stockyards and meat factory production. Carl Sandburg Correct Answer: Wrote poem Chicago about life in Chicago during 1890s Eastland Disaster Correct Answer: On July 24, 1915 a total of 844 people died when an excursion boat capsized on the Chicago River. Sears and Roebuck Correct Answer: Chicago based catalogue company still in existence; at one time allowed people in rural areas to get manufactured goods Al Capone 9 Correct Answer: A famous Chicago gangster who made a fortune ($60 million in one year) off of bootlegging, and "murdered" his way to the top of the crime network, buying off public officials, the police, and judges. He was not convicted of any wrongdoing, however, until a judge in a federal court convicted him of income-tax evasion and sent him to jail in 1931. John Dillinger Correct Answer: "Public Enemy #1", robbed 24 banks, known for his jail escapes