Moving to the City

By 1910 nearly ______ of the American population lived in cities

• 50%
• 25%
• 10%
• 70%

America's expanding ________ network fed the growth of the cities.

• railroad
• interstate road
• social
• trade

Trains carried cattle to ______ and Kansas City making them great meat-processing centers

• St. Louis
• Minneapolis
• Chicago
• Milwaukee

Pittsburgh developed into a center for steel manufacturing because both ______ and ______ were found in the area.

• nickel and petroleum
• copper and natural gas
• iron ore and silver
• coal and iron ore

Seaports such as New York and __________ developed as American trade with the rest of the world increased.

• Chicago
• Houston
• Green Bay
• San Francisco

A building where several families rented rooms and shared a common bathroom.

• Dormitories
• Apartments
• Tenements
• Condominiums

By the late 1800s, most immigrants lived in poor, run-down urban neighborhoods called

• slums
• suburbs
• Uptown
• ghettos

Middle class families moved to the ________ just outside the cities.

• slums
• suburbs
• villages
• towns

The ______ _____ referred to the gap between a few very wealthy people and large population of extremely poor.

• golden age
• gilded age
• industrial age
• urban age

_______ ______, a famous American author wrote a book about the income gap between the ultra rich and the working poor.

• JAck London
• Mark Twain
• Herman Melville
• Jon Stewart