Chapter 20 A Nation of Cities

Between 1850 and 1900, the percentage of Americans living in _______  increased.

• rural areas
• villages
• urban areas
• farming communities

The Statue of Liberty was a symbol to immigrants arriving in

• Philadelphia
• New York Harbor
• Chicago
• Boston Harbor

______ segregated whites and African Americans in public places.

• Jim Crow Laws
• The Civil Rights Act of 1875
• A Supreme Court ruling in 1954
• The 14th Amendment

Popular leisure activities in the cities included

• factory work
• tenements
• streetcars
• spectator sports

To create more housing in crowded cities, landlords built

• tenements
• factories
• slums
• YMCAs

Factory workers received low pay because there were

• so few factories
• too many jobs available
• so many workers available
• many urban problems

Urban areas with poor living conditions are called

• cities
• tenements
• factories
• slums

Many _______ set up organizations to help poor people.

• factory owners
• religious groups
• city governments
• tenement landlords

_________________ resulted in a ruling that said "separate but equal" was constitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Salvation Army
• prejudice
• factory workers

_______ allowed workers to live farther from their jobs.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• basketball
• streetcars
• Salvation Army