HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY
ORDER AND DISORDER
SHORT ANSWERS
1. AUTHOR WHOSE BOOK OF POETRY DESCRIBES THE TURBULENT TIMES
IN 19TH CENTURY NYC.
2. NAME OF THE BOOK.
3. WHO WERE VAUX AND OLMSTEAD?
4. NAME OF P. T. BARNUM'S ESTABLISHMENT.
5. WHAT WAS CASTLE GARDEN?
6. SLUM NORTH OF CITY HALL DOMINATED BY IRISH IMMIGRANTS.
7. KLEINDEUTSCHLAND WAS KNOWN AS
8. VESSELS CARRYING THOUSANDS OF IRISH TO NYC BECAME KNOWN AS
9. ACT PASSED IN 1863 WHICH BECAME THE FIRST FEDERAL DRAFT.
10. DISEASE SPREADING THROUGHOUT NYC IN THE SUMMER OF 1832?
11. HOW DID IT SPREAD?
12. WHO WAS THE BLAME FOR THE DISEASE PLACED ON?
13. HOW WAS THE GREAT FIRE OF 1835 FINALLY CONTAINED?
14. FIVE BLOCK STRETCH OF NEWSPAPER OFFICES WAS KNOWN AS _____.
15. LARGE DWELLINGS CONSTRUCTED TO HOUSE AS MANY PEOPLE
AS POSSIBLE.
16. EXCLUDED FROM POLITICAL POWER MANY IMMIGRANTS CREATED OR
JOINED________________________.
17. WHAT WAS THE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE GRID PLAN?
18. HOW MUCH WERE THOSE WHO WORKED ON CENTRAL PARK PAID?
19. WHO WAS LEFT OUT OF THE WORK FORCE FOR CENTRAL PARK?
20. WHY?
21. HOW WAS A DESIGN CHOSEN FOR CENTRAL PARK?
22. WHY WASN'T CENTRAL PARK A SUCCESS FOR THE POOR, IMMIGRANT
POPULATION IN NYC?
23. WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD WAS PART OF THE LAND TO BE SET ASIDE FOR
THE BUILDING OF CENTRAL PARK?
24. WHAT GROUP INHABITED THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?
25. WHY WAS THIS DEVASTATING?
26. WHAT WAS THE DESIGNER'S VISION FOR CENTRAL PARK?
27. AT THE TIME IT WAS BUILT, WHY DID CENTRAL PARK SEEM TO BE AN
INAPPROPRIATE NAME?
28. WHO WOULD OPPOSE THE IDEA FOR CENTRAL PARK?
29. WHO WERE CONSIDERED THE BLACKS OF THE 19TH CENTURY?
30. THIS RIVER IN UPSTATE NY BROUGHT WATER TO A RESEVOIR AT 42ND
ST AND 5TH AVE.
31. LINCOLN WAS AN EX-CONGRESSSMAN FROM _______________________.
32. WHAT WAS THE THEME OF LINCOLN'S SPEECH WHILE IN NYC IN 1860?
33. WHY WAS THE SOUTH FEARFUL OF LINCOLN’S SPEECH AND RISING
POPULARITY?
34. WHY WAS NEW YORK ALSO FEARFUL?
35. THE AREA AROUND WALL ST. AND BROADWAY BECOMES A DISTRICT
STRICTLY FOR
36. WHAT EVENT LED TO A MASSIVE INFLUX OF IRISH TO NYC?
37. HOW COULD YOU BE EXCLUDED FROM THE DRAFT? BE SPECIFIC.
38. WHICH TWO GROUPS WERE IN CONSTANT COMPETITION WITH ONE
ONE ANOTHERIN NYC?
39. WHAT WERE THEY COMPETING FOR?
40. WHERE DID A QUARTER MILLION MEN RALLY IN RESPONSE TO
LINCOLN'S CALL FOR RECRUITS FOR THE WAR?
41. WHAT IS CONSIDERED THE WORST INSTANCE OF CIVIL UNREST IN
AMERICAN HISTORY?
42. WHY DID NATIVE BORN WORKERS RESENT THE MASSIVE FLOOD OF
IRISH IMMIGRATION?
43. IN 1854 THE UPPER-CLASS WERE HORRIFIED WHEN THIS DEMOCRAT
WON THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
TRUE OR FALSE
44. NEW YORK CONSIDERED SECEEDING FROM THE UNION.
45. THE GREAT FIRE OF 1835 DESTROYED THE ENTIRE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
46. RELIGIOUS LEADERS BLAMED THE RICH FOR THE SPREAD OF DISEASE
IN THE CITY'S SLUMS.
47. THE TRIP FROM IRELAND TO NEW YORK CITY TOOK ABOUT 30 DAYS.
ESSAY
48. EXPLAIN IN FULL THREE REASONS WHY OPPOSITION TO THE WAR
BEGAN TO INCREASE BY 1863?