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22 Cards in this Set
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Between 1865 and 1900 the percentage of Americans living in cities did what?
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doubled
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What allowed growing cities to accommodate the growing number of residents?
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skyscrapers
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These allowed cities to expand in what direction?
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upward
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What allowed cities to expand outward?
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mass transit
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It allowed what groups of people to leave the city that could not afford to leave before?
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middle-class office workers and some skilled laborers
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Give some names of the nouveau riche.
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Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt
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How did they make their money?
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new industries
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Why did many of the nouveau riche spend their great wealth freely?
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so that everyone would know how successful they were
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Many American members of the new upper class imitated the strict standards of social behavior and etiquette of what culture?
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British Victorian
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What kept wages low for working-class men and women?
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The ever-growing population of laborers eager to work
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What caused living conditions for the working-class city-dwellers during the late 1800s to become worse?
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Housing shortages and the rising cost of rent
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What type of filth could you find outside the crowded tenements?
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raw sewage and piles of garbage
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What caused the pollution to be horrible in the tenements?
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factories in the adjoining industrial areas
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Who established the Hull House in Chicago?
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Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
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What were her central goals to provide what, and improve what?
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educational and cultural opportunities to the poor and improve living conditions in the neighborhoods
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Large, multistory buildings
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skyscrapers
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Public transportation systems, such as commuter trains and subways, that make it possible for workers to live farther away from their jobs
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mass transit
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
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suburbs
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New class of American city-dwellers that arose in the late 1800s
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nouveau riche
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Term coined by social scientist Thorstein Veblen to describe spending money just to display one's wealth
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conspicuous consumption
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Poorly built apartment buildings that housed many poor city-dwellers in the late 1800s and the early 1900s
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tenements
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Community service centers that were founded in the late 1800s to offer educational opportunities, skills training, and cultural events to poor neighborhoods
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settlement houses
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