Urban Environment
The technology for making steel girders allowed for the building of these.
Skyscrapers or suspension bridges
a form of mass transportation train like car was pulled along tracks by underground cables. San Francisco had these.
cable car
This class would have had the means to live in fashionable districts in chateaus or castles
High Society
an informal political group designed to gain and keep power
political machine
Urban populations grew, so land owners chose to create skyscrapers to grow upward rather than
outward
Frank J Sprague improved on the cable car by inventing this
electric trolley car
This class often lived in tenements
Working class
Native born Americans blamed these people for the increase in crime and violence, even though the crime rate was similar among both groups.
immigrants
the men who ran political machines
party bosses
Immigrants and farmers ended up in urban areas and took jobs in these.
Factories
Chicago has this for mass transit
elevated railroad. (the L)
dark, crowded multifamily apartments
tenements
This contributed to violent crime inside and outside of the home.
Alcohol
An Irish immigrant who was one of New York City's most powerful party bosses
George Plunkitt
a railroad car pulled by horses
horsecar
Boston and New York has this type of mass transit
subway
doctors, lawyers, engeneers, architects and teachers lived in lived in streetcar suburbs and were part of this class
middle-class gentility
This caused disease such as typhoid fever and cholera by contaminating drinking water
improper sewage disposal
When party bosses got money through dishonest or questionable means
graft or fraud
This man from Chicao designed skyscrapers and was a teacher of Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Sullivan
Elisha Otis invented this, making tall buildings more practical
Safety Elevator
This social class grew as a result of industrialization in the late 1800's
middle class
This caused air pollution in urban areas
coal and wood fires
New York's Tammany Hall had a leader who ended up in prison for corruption.
William M "Boss" Tweed