(ch2/ L3) Problems Faced by Growing Cities

Overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods were caused by:

• rural mechanization
• rapid industrialization and urbanization
• political machines
• settlement houses

crowded, dirty, poorly built, dangerous, small apartments

• settlement houses
• tenements
• mechanization

• political machines

when people in power break the law

• political machines
• tenements
• mechanization

• political corruption

These gained power by meeting the needs of immigrants (like help finding jobs and homes).

• political machines
• tenements
• farmers from rural areas

• urbanization

These broke the law by controlling votes.

• political machines
• tenements
• ghettos
• settlement houses

These were places in big cities that helped immigrants adjust to their new lives in America.

• political machines
• tenements
• factories

• settlement houses

The first settlement house in the U.S. was created by:

• Jane Addams

• Andrew Carnegie

• Zipporah Feldman

• Boss Tweed

The first settlement house in Chicago was called:

• Settlement House
• Sod House
• Hull House
• Ida Lee

Which was NOT a problem faced by cities around 1900?

• settlement houses
• political corruption
• tenements
• crowding

Which was a problem faced by cities around 1900?

• settlement houses

• political corruption

• Hull House

• Jane Addams

Answer explanation

Jane Addams opened Hull House, the first settlement house in the US, in Chicago in 1889.