What Is Urbanization?
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is urbanization?
This was the main cause of urbanization during the Gilded Age.
What are factories (or factory jobs)?
Poverty, overcrowding, joblessness, and religious persecution in Europe.
What are push factors?
This famous settlement house in Chicago provided English classes, childcare, and cultural activities.
What is the Hull House?
In 1870 there were only this many American cities with over 500,000 people.
What is two?
Urbanization became important in the Gilded Age because it created this feature of city life where all classes mingled.
What is heterogeneity (or diversity/mingling of classes)?
Factories offered this, which attracted minorities and immigrants to cities.
What are job opportunities?
The U.S. reputation for religious freedom and economic opportunities.
What are pull factors?
This 1901 law required apartments to have running water, indoor bathrooms, and better ventilation.
What is the Tenement Act of 1901?
By 1900 this many American cities had populations over 500,000.
What is six?
This invention (along with windmills, water mills, and the printing press) helped speed up urbanization.
What is the mechanical clock?
Immigrants and minorities moved to cities mainly for these.
What are industrial jobs?
Hearing about family or people from your home country or region already living in the city.
What is chain migration?
These two transportation inventions helped reduce traffic problems in growing cities.
What are cable cars and subways?
Increasing urbanization hurt the environment by causing this type of housing crisis.
What is overcrowded tenement housing?
Cities in the Gilded Age became known for this celebrated feature of urban life.
What is heterogeneity?
Industrial expansion and this other major factor radically changed American cities.
What is population growth?
These two main groups were heavily pulled to American cities during the Gilded Age.
What are immigrants and minorities?
Central Park and modern water/sewage systems were built to solve these urbanization problems.
What are public health and sanitation problems?
Urbanization in the Gilded Age caused dangerous air quality, pollution, and this major health issue.
What is a public health crisis?
Name one major city that had over 1 million people by 1900.
: What is New York, Chicago, or Philadelphia?
The increasing number of immigrants brought this negative effect to the U.S.
What are diseases?
One pull factor related to jobs in the cities.
What are industrial jobs (or economic opportunities)?
The Tenement Act of 1901 helped remove these poorly designed apartments.Overcrowded tenement housing during urbanization led to this type of
What are dumbbell apartments?
Overcrowded tenement housing during urbanization led to this type of crisis.
What is a public and health sanitation