Rail transit vehicles designed for transportation powered by electricity
What is a streetcar ?
100
a moving platform or cage for carrying passengers up and down is an __________.
What are elevators?
100
poor families who couldn't afford to rent a place of their own often moved in with other families into a run down apartment which is called a
tenement
100
_________ changed how people worked and where people worked
What did Industrialization do?
100
a group that controls the activities of a political party is a
political machine
200
How did streetcars change the transportation?
Better and faster transportation
200
______ help pull elevators up and down
How does pulleys help elevators?
200
a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people
What are slums
200
Why were Immigrants, Industries and People were drawn to cities?
Good transportation and plentiful workers
200
Political Machines mostly did illegal/legal things to win political things like elections
illegal.
300
To get electricity to the streetcars, a streetcar would touch an electric ____ with a long pole on its roof.
An electrical wire
300
Elevators were the ___ for constructing _____ buildings
Elevators were the key for constructing tall buildings
300
In 1906, a powerful earthquaked rocked ___ ________, CA.
San Francisco, CA.
300
growth of cities that resulted from theses changes
Urbanizations
300
_______ were supportive of political machines because of their help.
Immigrants were supportive of political machines because they were helpful and supported them when they were struggling.
400
In 1888, ______, __ became the first American city to have a transportation system powered by electricity which are streetcars
Richmond, VA
400
____ Elevator Company was the first to install an electrical elevator.
Otis Elevator Company
400
______ & _____ also threatened lower class lives.
poverty and dieases
400
Many people that moved to America were immigrants. Just like ____ _____.
Carl Jenson
400
Another way they gained support was by _____ _____, like machine bosses gave jobs and food to supporter and the supporters worked and voted for the machine.
trading favors were popular and helped gain support. a win-win situation.
500
In 1889, streetcars were built in ______. It brought up _______ & better __________.
Chicago and population and communities
500
In ____, The Otis Elevator Company was the first to install an electrical elevator.
In 1889
500
How much money in damage was caused by the earthquake in 1906?
Around $400 million
500
Explain how Industrializations expanded cities?
Best explanations will be chosen.
500
The most famous political machine in New York city is ______ ____.