Chapter 5, Section 3

What journalist and photographer became famous for exposing the horrible conditions in New York City tenements?

• Jane Adams

• Frederick Law Olmstead

• Jacob Riis

• Abraham Hyman

In the late 1800s, Pittsburgh’s prosperous steel mills brought about what serious problem?

• diseases

• overcrowding

• garbage

• air pollution

This law required new buildings in New York to have better ventilation and running water.

• The Benevolent Act

• New York State Tenement House Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Settlement Act of 1901

Settlement houses offered what kind of services in poor areas?

• education, recreation, and social activities

• trash removal

• medical assistance

• pollution cleanup

She visited factories and wrote about the problems of child labor.

• Ellen Gates Starr

• Jane Addams

• Florence Kelly

• Pauline Newman

The most famous settlement house of the period was ____________.

• Hull House

• Benevolent House

• Tenement House

• Settle House

________________ and Ellen Gates Starr moved into a rundown building in a poor Chicago neighborhood and turned it into the most famous settlement house in the period.

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

• Florence Kelly

• Pauline Newman

What was the relationship between immigration and urbanization?

• Immigrants were needed to build new cities.

• As cities grew, immigration increased.

• Immigrants fled urban centers for rural areas more like their homeland.

• Urbanization resulted from immigration.

One negative impact of industrialization on U.S. cities was

• the development of mass transit

• the availability of consumer goods

• the growth of slums

• the increase in the number of jobs

Tenements were

• poorly built and overcrowded housing

• well-established and nice housing

• neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities