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The Challenge of the Cities Chapter 6 - Section 3 The Challenge of the Cities

1. What happened to the number of people living on farms in the US between 1880 and 1910? 2. What were 2 reasons many black southerners moved to northern cities? 3. What were suburbs? 4. What were 5 methods of transportation that made commuting to the suburbs easier?

5. What happened to the buildings? Why? 6. Describe the first sky scraper. 7. What happened to cities as they expanded? 8. What was a tenement?

9. How did slums develop? 10. What were three conditions in the slums? 11. Why was fire such a big danger? 12. What happened during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

13. Why were contagious diseases such as Yellow Fever so dangerous? 14. What were five of these diseases? 15. What was a “ghetto?” What were two reasons people lived there?

16. What were restrictive covenants? 17. What four groups of people did these covenants prevent from buying land or houses in the better neighborhoods? 18. What was the book “How the Other Half Lives” about?

19. What happened to the gap between the rich and the poor? 20. What five things did city officials begin to try to improve? 21. What was the “Political Machine?”

22. How did political machines work? 23. Who was Boss Tweed and what was Tammany Hall? 24. How did he and his pals “rob the city treasury?”

Essay Imagine you live in the slums of Chicago in the early 1900s. Write one page describing your life and the challenges you face.