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+ Chicago River Importance Correct Answer: Water Access Who were the first Europeans to come to Chicago? Correct Answer: Marquette and Joliet Fort Dearborn Correct Answer: Native Americans attack and massacre American populations at this fort in present-day Chicago DuSable Correct Answer: established first settlement in Chicago First Canal Correct Answer: Connected Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River William Ogden Correct Answer: First mayor of Chicago 2 First Chicago Immigrants Correct Answer: Jews, Poles, and Italians Jane Addams Correct Answer: Hull House Bridgeport Correct Answer: Irish Neighborhood Chicago Fire Correct Answer: 1871, started in O'Leary Barn, the Chicago Water Tower survived, and rebuild took 2 years Skyscraper Correct Answer: Home Insurance Building Pilsen Correct Answer: Mexican Museum of Fine Arts Little Village Correct Answer: Mexican Neighborhood 3 Lakeview (Lincoln Park) Correct Answer: Biograph Theatre and Valentine's Day Massacre Greek Town Correct Answer: Greek neighborhood Chinatown Correct Answer: Chinese Neighborhood Little Italy Correct Answer: Italian neighborhood Haymarket Riot Correct Answer: 1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence Union Stockyards Correct Answer: Largest meat packing district in the world Columbian Exposition Correct Answer: 1893 World's Fair in Jackson Park designed by Burnham and Almsted, only the Museum of Science and Industry remains 4 Race Riots Correct Answer: 1919 U.S. soldiers were upset after coming back from WWI that African Americans had started replacing their jobs and started violent riots Blackhawk War Correct Answer: 1832 Attempt by the Indians to regain land in Illinois McCormick Correct Answer: The Reaper Robert Abbott Correct Answer: publisher of the Chicago Defender Century of Progress Correct Answer: World's Fair held from 1933 to 1934 Uptown Correct Answer: Asian Neighborhood Lincoln Square Correct Answer: German neighborhood Eastland Disaster 5 Correct Answer: Capsized ship in 1915 Carl Sandburg Correct Answer: Chicago Poet John Dillinger Correct Answer: Famous bank robber in 1930s St. Valentine's Day Massacre Correct Answer: 1929 Capone's men executed 7 members of the O'Banion gang Graceland Cemetery Correct Answer: Buried many famous people Hull House Correct Answer: Dedicated to helping the urban poor Leopold and Loeb Correct Answer: 2 teenage boys that committed murder Fort Dearborn Massacre Correct Answer: Massacred 60 out of the 100 people leaving fort Burned down the fort 6 Camp Douglas Correct Answer: Union POW camp Montgomery Ward Correct Answer: Department store Riverview Correct Answer: Amusement Park Great Migration Correct Answer: Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs. Bungalow Correct Answer: small house invented by John Taylor Mayor Thompson Correct Answer: Controversial mayor that worked with Al Capone Mayor Daley Correct Answer: Chicago Mayor who had police violently put down the protests from the assassinations