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Chapter 7 Section 2
The Challenges of Urbanization (262)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define urbanization | rapid growth of cities, mostly in the northeast and midwest |
| Why did most immigrants live in large cities? | they were cheap and provided many jobs |
| This program started by the government helped teach immigrants to read and taught them American History as well as etiquette and cooking | The Americanization Movement |
| What was hindering the Americanization movement? | tight-knit ethnic communities that insisted on practicing their own culture and language |
| New farm innovations were good because they increased crop production. Why were they bad? | They required less people to work in fields so fieldworkers moved into the city |
| For once racial tension between blacks and whites occured in the NORTH. Why? | Blacks who used to work on farms now had no jobs, they moved to the city and were competition just like immigrants |
| Row houses were important in new housing technology what were they? | dwellings that shared side walls with other similar buildings that were tightly packed together onto a block |
| tenements, or multi-family urban dwellings were orginally built for ___________ but when immigrants arrived became _______________ | single families; overcrowded and unsanitary |
| The governments attempts to make tenements cleaner _______________ | backfired. people nailed windows and air vents shut because people would put trash in them that would smell and attract vermin. |
| what is mass transit? | transportation systems designed to move large amounts of people on fixed routes |
| What was the most common form of mass transit at the time? | street cars |
| This was an ongoing task for political leaders, a safety hazard that was very hard to fix | sanitation, there was no trash collection, sewage system, or clean water |
| Why was fire such an issue? | there werent many water sources to put it out and almost all buildings were made of wood |
| What were the ideals of the social Gospel Movement? | salvation through service to the poor |
| What were settlement houses? | community centers in the slums that helped provide assistance to poor people and immigrants |
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