Vocabulary
Material found in nature that's useful to humans.
What are Natural Resources?
A mostly residential area just outside of the city.
What is a suburban area?
The region in America that remained mostly agricultural after 1900.
What is the south?
The area in the southeastern and southwestern US that industries were able to move to in the late 20th century.
What is the Sunbelt?
Thanks to these machines, farmers are now fewer in number, but can produce way more crops.
What are tractors and/or combines?
The term for growth of cities as more people move from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
The industry that prepares animals for consumers to eat (like beef and chicken).
What is the meat packing industry?
Factories were often built around these to make shipping easier.
What are rivers and railroads?
What the Immigration Act of 1924 did to help Americans find more jobs.
Stopped all immigration.
Chicago was always a great place for shipping because of it proximity to these geographical features.
What are the Great Lakes?
The industry that produces cars, trucks, and other vehicles.
What is the automobile industry?
The industry that produces fabrics and clothing?
What is the textile industry?
The region of the US that specialised in the textile industry.
What is New England?
The invention that allowed people to live in suburbs and work in big cities.
What is the automobile?
The city that specialized in the steel industry so much that its NFL team is called the Steelers.
What is Pittsburg?
The industry that produces the metal to make tools, bridges, and buildings.
What's the steel industry?
The places (in cities) where many factories are located, producing a lot of goods.
What are manufacturing centers?
What is Chicago?
The kind of communities that sprang up because of the housing shortage problem in industrial cities.
What are suburban areas.
The automobile industry was so big in this city that it was given the nickname, Motown.
What is Detroit?
A temporary time of economic decline (people have less money).
What is a recession?
The process of a nation transforming from mostly farming to manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
The invention that allowed perishable goods to be shipped before going bad.
What are refrigerated shipping containers?
Farmers decided to use these instead of trains to ship their products after WWII.
What are trucks?
The mass movement of African Americans from the south to northern and eastern cities.
What is the Great Migration?