Lesson 2: The Growth of Cities Answers

What was the main reason for poor living conditions in cities?

By paying low wages, factory owners were able to

What factor would have most likely prevented the problems that cities faced during urbanization?

Workers were attracted to industrial cities because

The term slum means

What contributed to poor working conditions for factory workers in the late 1800s? Choose three answers.fourteen to sixteen hour work daysfive day work weekschild labor protection lawsunlivable wages lack of personal protective equipment

During the Industrial Revolution, who demanded reform?

This excerpt is from a doctor’s testimony to an 1819 British parliamentary committee.When I was a surgeon in the infirmary, accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary, through the children's hands and arms having being caught in the machinery; in many instances the muscles, and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finger or two might be lost.

This excerpt by British physician John Griscom was written in 1842.By providing the laboring classes with better tenements, improved ventilation, and healthy and cleanly arrangements in respect to yards, sinks and sewerage, they will certainly suffer less from sickness and premature mortality, and a vast amount of pauperism, crime, and wretchedness be prevented . . .

The shift toward mass production affected consumers by