Urbanization

Urbanization

Multiple Choice

What does the term Urban mean?

• The country

• A residential area outside a city

• The city

Urbanization

Means the growth of cities.

Urbanization transformed the physical nature of cities.

Multiple Choice

Buildings got taller because of what two innovations?

• steel frames + elevators

• wood frames + steel stairs

• iron + elevators

• iron frames + escalators

Population Density

As buildings got taller and tenements got built it greatly increased the population density of urban areas.

Multiple Choice

What does population density mean?

• The number of people in a square mile

• the number of people who leave a certain place.

• The number of people you can count in a city total

Multiple Choice

There were two main groups moving into city for industrial jobs: Former Farmers and European Immigrants. Why were farmers moving into cities?

• They wanted to start urban farms.

• They were given high paying jobs with benefits.

• Farm mechanization meant they were no longer need as farmworkers.

• They were promised agricultural education programs at urban colleges.

Multiple Choice

Which image shows a tenement?

Slum Living included

• disease

• lack of sanitation

• crime

• overcrowding

Multiple Select

What groups were most likely not living in the slum areas?

• Industrialists

• "new" immigrants

• Middle Class professionals

• industrial workers

Economic and leisure centers developed for a growing middle class.

• Had money to spend

• ways to get places

• cities offered different types of districts

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Poll

Which is your favorite leisure activity?

• Going to a sporting event

• Going out to dinner

• Shopping

• Going to show at a theater

The Middle Class

• Got to enjoy all those leisure activities

• were able to commute easily for employment and activities

Multiple Choice

What would allow the Middle Class to commute easily to employment and leisure activities during the industrial age?

• Horse drawn carriages

• airplanes

• public transportation

Multiple Select

Choose all the physical transformations that took place in cities because of Urbanization.

• Crowded streets

• mass transportation

• Large farms constructed

• skyscrapers

• Entertainment districts

Open Ended

What do you think is the worst effect of urbanization on cities?