This Frenchman stated in 1831 about the United States that Americans seemed to think nothing of remaking a nature for the sake of progress
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville
100
According to the Pollution excerpt, what was dug from the garbage and brought to the homes of people?
What is rags?
100
How much of the country’s original forests was still standing by 1900?
What is only a fraction?
100
From the Natural Resources excerpt, what was the natural resource that was dumped into chutes?
What is coal?
100
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, what group of people created diversity in America?
Who were immigrants?
200
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, what did the wealthy create to distract people from urban life?
What is parks, museums, concert halls and libraries?
200
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, who was the leading figure in the early development of the skyscrapers?
Who is Louis Sullivan?
200
From the Coal Mining video, what was the consequence from the build of toxic sludge that was placed in the earthen dams.
What is leaked into the people’s drinkable water?
200
According to the Landscape excerpt, about how many kinds of tree had to be cleared to make way for cornfields and orchards?
What is five hundred?
200
How were some rivers handles if it became too much of a health hazard to drink from?
What is rivers were paved over?
300
How did mining destroy the land?
What is it left open shafts, slap heaps, and polluted the streams?
300
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, what the did the city beautiful movement lead to?
What was the growth of the suburbs?
300
How did overgrazing by farming impact the environment?
What is cattle stripped the lands of its vegetation and vulnerable to erosion?
300
How did Chicago handle the sewage would not flow into Lake Michigan?
What is engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River?
300
From the Landscape Picture excerpt, along what coast were the trees cleared from at first?
What is along the Atlantic Coast?
400
What is another way of saying “the river was waiting to be damned…. the prairie was waiting to be farmed, the woodlands to be cut down, and the desert to be irrigated?”
What is most people saw no problem with exploiting the environment?
400
From the Pollution excerpt, why was there a lot of garbage on the street?
What is because the system garbage collecting was inadequate?
400
From the Coal Mining video, what is a consequence if someone were to drink the contaminated water?
What is a person went blind?
400
How did the air smell in New York City?
What is it smelled like sulfur ammonia, kerosene, acid fumes, and phosphate fertilizer?
400
According to the Coal Mining video, what happened when the debris from the blown-up mountain was thrown into the water?
What is living organism in the water were killed?
500
According to the Pollution excerpt, what were the people would dug through the wooden boxes on the streets called?
What are rag pickers?
500
From the coal mining video, happened to the streams when the mountain was blown-up?
What were the streams were covered up?
500
From the Effects of Urbanization video, what was put in place the equitable building in New York for everyday use?
What is the first elevator?
500
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, why did city populations double?
What is due to the jobs and factories?
500
According to the Effects of Urbanization video, what was the result of overcrowded cities?