AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE Version 2018
2.5 – A Nation of Cities (105-110)
Heading Section Title Section # Write the questions; number them per the study guide Highlight vocabulary (use all terms from the list that appear in the textbook) Respond with a well supported paragraph (nearly always) Skip a line after each item. |
** Write additional terms into your notes for defining in class ** You may also Google them 😀
A. Americans Migrate to Cities “America was born on the farm and moved to the city” OBJECTIVE: Analyze urban growth in the late 1800s. | |||||||||||||
1. Create a table to show the benefits and drawbacks to urban living. URBAN LIVING
** Add rows as necessary 2. Create a table to show the benefits and drawbacks to rural living. RURAL LIVING
** Add rows as necessary | 1. Introductory Paragraph 2. City Life Beckons to Immigrants and Migrants 1. Demographics (read the introduction box for this term) 2. Urbanization 3. Standard of Living 3. Cities Attract Immigrants 4. Farmers Migrate to Urban Areas 4. Rural-to-urban migrants ❈❉❊❋ To complete the tables, you need to read ALL of the subsection and incorporate ALL of those ideas into the tables. ❈❉❊❋ | ||||||||||||
RESPOND TO THE 2 QUESTIONS IN THE GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER
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B. Technology Improves City Life “As cities swelled … innovators stepped up to the task... to improve living conditions” OBJECTIVE: Explain how technology improved city life. | |||||||
3. Create a table to show the challenges and solutions to urban living. URBAN LIVING
** Add rows as necessary ❈❉❊❋ To complete the tables, you need to read ALL of the subsection and incorporate ALL of those ideas into the tables. ❈❉❊❋ Keep in mind that you may need to infer (read between the lines) in order to determine the challenge or solution that goes with the other. 😟 Sometimes, there are no solutions 😟 | 1. Introductory Paragraph 2. Engineers Build Skyward with Steel 5. Skyscrapers 6. Elisha Otis: safety elevator 7. Central heating 3. Electricity Powers New Industries and Economic Development 8. Streetcars 9. Mass transit 10. Commuter rail lines 11. Subway system 12. Streetcar suburbs 4. City Planners Lay Out Cities 13. Daniel Burnham 14. 1893 World’s Fair Columbian Exposition 15. White City 16. Urban planning 17. Frederick Law Olmsted 18. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia 19. Central Park, NYC | ||||||
RESPOND TO THE 2 QUESTIONS IN THE GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER
C. Urban Living Creates Social Issues “Urbanization led to many social issues caused by overcrowding and poverty” OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the problems caused by rapid urban growth and ways that city dwellers tried to solve them. | |||||||
4. Create a table to show the challenges and solutions to urban living. URBAN LIVING
** Add rows as necessary ❈❉❊❋ To complete the tables, you need to read ALL of the subsection and incorporate ALL of those ideas into the tables. ❈❉❊❋ 😟 Sometimes, there are no solutions 😟 | 1. Introductory Paragraph 2. Housing Conditions Worsen 20. Row houses ** 21. Tenement 22. Dumbbell tenement ** 23. Jacob Riis 24. How the Other Half Lives 3. Public Health Concerns 25. Cholera 26. Chlorination ** 4. Safety in Cities 27. Great Chicago Fire (1871) 28. Professional firefighting teams 29. City police forces 30. Civil servant 31. Electric streetcar 32. Neighborhood gang | ||||||
