Search for some answers about the development of cities in the United States during the Industrial Revolution.

  1. How did New York City get to have the Statue of Liberty? How did they raise the money to have it built?
  2. Why was the building of the Statue of Liberty important to the country?
  3. What advice were immigrants given at Ellis Island?
  4. Who was Andrew Carnegie? What helped to make him successful?
  5.  Describe what it was like to work on building the skyscrapers?
  6. Why did mostly immigrants and American Indians work on the skyscrapers?
  7. How did the police “clean up” crime in the Industrial Revolution?
  8. What was “the hell of tenements”? Describe the bad parts of life in the tenements.
  9. Why are sewers so important?

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