Immigration
Changes in Cities
Helping Hands
Booming cities
Miscellaneous
100
What percentage of the U.S population was urban in 1880
What is 28%
100
When was the first skyscraper built?
What is 1885
100
*Bonus Question, Double or nothing* What two people opened hull house (who, where, when)
What is Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago 1889
100
What did Chicago's location have that helped it grow quickly? (100 pts. per reason)
What is the Transportation routes, natural resources, and Lake Michigan Factories that cut logs into lumber
100
What was the effect of electricity on rapid transit?
What is it made it move faster and easier
200
where was the first skyscraper built?
What is Chicago, Illinois
200
What was Hull House?
What is one of the first Settlement Houses in the U.S
200
What is a stockyard
What is a fenced in area where animals were kept until they're used as food or relocated
200
What problems did people face in growing cities?
What is crowded areas, increased crime, ect.
300
What percentage of the U.S population was Urban in 1920?
What is 51%
300
What two men thought of new ways to improve Electricity?
Who are Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
300
What is a settlement house?
What is a community center for people in cities
300
Why did many people move to Chicago?
What is to find jobs
300
When was electricity used everywhere?
What is by the early 1900s
400
what percentage of the U.S population was Rural in 1880?
What is 72%
400
What is a slum?
What is a poor, crowded part of a city
400
Why did people come to Hull House?
What is to learn English and gain medical care
400
What did factories in Chicago do?
What is cut logs into lumber
400
What was the name for slum buildings?
What is tenements
500
What percentage of the U.S population was Rural in 1920?
What is 49%
500
What is Rapid Transit?
What is a system of trains used to move people around cities
500
Working parents left their kids where?
What is the Hull House Nursery
500
What did mills do?
What is turned wheat and corn into food
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