Urbanization

What is the rapid growth of cities called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

multi-family apartments, usually dark, crowded, and barely meeting minimal living standards

• tenure

• tenement

• skyscraper

What book depicted unsafe sanitary conditions in meatpacking plants?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Grapes of Wrath

• The Jungle

• Hiroshima

Who wrote "The Jungle?"

• John Steinback

• John Hersey

• Upton Sinclair

• Harriet Beecher Stoew

Who was the president when the Jungle was published?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Andrew Jackson

Where was the famous fire in 1871?

• Cincinnati

• Milwaukee

• Chicago

• New York City

What bridge in New York became the world's longest suspension bridge in 1883?

• Golden Gate Bridge

• London Bridge

• Brooklyn Bridge

• Seven Mile Bridge

Who created the plans for Central Park in New York

• Frederick Law Olmsted

• George Eastman

• Orville Wright

• Calvert Vaux

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?

• Made the crime rate decrease
• Led to an increase in farm workers
• Make the cities cleaner and safer
• Led to an increase in population in the cities

How were cities built to conserve space?

• Skyscrapers were built

• Tenements apartments were built

• Buildings were built in unique shapes

• All of these happened