It's a cesspool!
a squalid district inhabited by very poor people
Slum
“the most ecologically significant event since the death of the dinosaurs”
Columbian Exchange
author of How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
About 1000 species of plants and vertebrate animals once lived here
Manahatta
"The Original New Yorkers"
The Lenape
filled with too many people; contributes to the spread of diseases
Overcrowding
the deadly route to Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
4,000 acres, approximately 13 miles south of Chicago, IL
Pullman, Illinois
policies were created to prevent them from working
Children
the disease most destructive to Native Americans
Smallpox
the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities
Urbanization
this person conducted the London Social Survey
Charles James Booth
most successful garden city
Letchworth
exposé writers
Muckrakers
Cramped, poorly lit, under-ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing
Tenement Houses
the movement of over 7 million people from 1916-1970
The Great Migration
This planning pioneer wrote about witnessing the atrocities of slavery in a London newspaper.
Frederick Law Olmsted
it was broken up by geological forces over 200 million years ago
Pangea
an 1893 act prevented these people from immigrating to the United States
Chinese
bovine disease
Tuberculosis or Whooping Cough
considered the first globalization
Homogenocene
author of Beauty for Ashes; Evansville, Indiana
Albion Fellows Bacon
“Magic City” or the “City of the Century.”
Gary, Indiana
speculator who does cheap and shoddy work
jerry builder