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This is how subways improved life for New Yorkers.
What is they made it easier for New Yorkers to get around big cities?
100
These helped to make room for new businesses and offices right in the middle of busy cities.
What are skyscrapers?
100
This was the project that John, Washington, and Emily Roebling helped to complete.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
100
This was one hardship faced by many immigrants in New York City.
What is the shortage of housing?
100
This was the fastest way to travel and move goods in the late 1800's.
What are Trains?
200
Immigrants gave the United States names like "The Golden Land" for this reason.
What is they hoped to find the chance to make a better life for themselves and their families?
200
These were three hardships faced by many immigrants in the workplace.
What are long hours, little pay, and crowded workshops?
200
This is why more immigrants settled in New York than any other state.
What is New York had more jobs and factories than any other state?
200
This is why many labor unions formed in New York during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
What is workers formed labor unions to try to improve the poor working conditions. (Many workers worked long hours and received little pay. Working conditions were often unsafe.)
200
In 1892 this became the main immigration station for people coming into the US from Europe.
What is Ellis Island?
300
These were poorly built apartment buildings where many families lived in NY City.
What are Tenements?
300
These were crowded workshops where thousands of immigrant workers were paid low wages.
What are sweatshops?
300
This man invented the first working lightbulb. It was later improved by another man.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
This man improved Thomas Edison's invention by making it last longer.
Who is Lewis Latimer?
300
This is a place where water is collected and stored for later use by a city.
What is a reservoir?
400
This was one way that farms in NY changed after the Civil War.
What is new machines made work easier. Trains brought wheat and corn from the Midwest so farmers grew new crops such as fruits and vegetables. Many farmers moved to cities.
400
These were three reasons why many immigrants came to the US and settled in NY.
What are to escape poverty, to escape hunger, and because they faced a lack of religious freedom at home.
400
This book was written by Jacob Riis and descrived the living conditions in New York City tenements.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
400
This person and a group of shirt collar workers went on strike until the owners met their demands.
Who is Kate Mullany?
400
This is how the "forever wild" amendment helped to protect water for New Yorkers.
What is it protected the many lakes in "forever wild" areas that serve as reservoirs for New Yorkers.
500
This was the effect Jacob Riis' Book had in New York?
What is many people were shocked to learn about the terrible living conditions in tenements and this led to new laws that improved housing in New York?
500
These were problems of child labor in the late 1800's.
What are children working with dangerous machines, earning low wages, and spending time at work instead of at school?
500
This is how the "forever wild" amendment improved life for New Yorkers.
What is it protected the Adirondacks and Catskills for future generations to enjoy?
500
This is how transportation changed in New York in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
(Railroads, Subways, Bridges) What is railroads were the fastest way to travel and move goods, new railroads connected every part of NY State. Railroads also connected NY with other states. Subways made it easier to get around big cities. New bridges made it easier to travel and move goods across waterways.
500
These were three ways that labor unions tried to improve life for workers in NY.
What are higher wages, shorter working hours, and improved saftey of working conditions?