Urbanization in America

Question 1

Throughout the 1800s, urban areas in the United States

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grew as more and more people left rural areas.

Question 2

Which of the following was a major effect of urbanization?

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The middle class grew in cities.

Question 3

How did the growth of cities create problems for the working poor?

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People had to live and work in crowded areas.

Question 4

The service industry in the United States grew in the late 1800s. What was one effect of that growth?

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The middle class grew as people took jobs as clerks, lawyers, and teachers.

Question 5

In the late 1800s, what attracted farm workers from rural areas to the cities?

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employment opportunities and cultural opportunities

Question 6

What condition most contributed to disease spreading in tenements in the early 1900s?

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inadequate sanitation

Question 7

How did railroads affect cities during the Second Industrial Revolution?

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Railroads helped cities grow by transporting goods and raw materials.

Question 8

Which is the best description of the living and working conditions of the urban poor at the turn of the twentieth century?

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Both living and working conditions were dangerous and unsafe.

Question 9

Which of the following phrases best describes American society in the early 1900s?

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a growing middle class and a large class of working poor

Question 10

Who were the “other half” that Jacob Riis referred to in his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives?

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the working poor

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