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Urban Problems
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Vocab
100
Buy a house on outskirts of town or rent cramped rooms in central city.
What were two options working class had for housing?
100
The poor in urban cities.
Who did Protestants want to help?
100
Plan was drawn for NYC "Greenward," later known as Central Park
What happened in 1857?
100
Woman who created the Chicago Settlement House, Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
Multi-family urban dwellings
What are Tenements?
200
a law was passed setting living standards
What happened in NYC in 1879?
200
Aid for those in need, classes, and a place for growth and knowledge.
What did settlement houses provide?
200
Every city had experienced a major fire
What happened in the 1870s-1880s?
200
A landscape architect who spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks.
Who is Frederick Law Olmstead?
200
Transportation systems designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes
What is Mass Transit?
300
Two diseases that resulted from dirty water.
What are cholera and typhoid fever?
300
Settlement house created by Jane Addams
What is Hull House?
300
Garbage piled streets, factories spewing heavy smoke into the air, and sewage flowing through open gutters
What became major problems in cities?
300
One of the founders of the settlement houses
Who is Charles Stover?
300
Community centers in slum neighborhoods that provide assistance to people in the area.
What are Settlement Houses?
400
They had to build new ones to meet demand for growing population
What was an effect of cities struggling to repair old transit systems?
400
To understand urbanization problems
Why did settlement workers live at the house?
400
Increasing population
What caused thieves and pickpockets to flourish?
400
Co-founder of settlement houses with Charles Stover
Who is Stanton Coit?
400
A method of purifying water by mixing it with the chemical of chlorine.
What is chlorination?
500
1844
When did NYC organize the first 24/7 salaried municipal police force?
500
1886
What year were settlement houses founded?
500
Wooden houses
What played major roles in starting and allowing fires to spread?
500
private contractors who did not clean streets properly
Who are scavengers?
500
Reform movement based on the belief that Christians have a responsibility to help improve working condition and alleviate poverty.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?