Moving To The City

During this time period, the United States ______.

• changed from a rural society to an urban one

• changed from an urban society to a rural one

• replaced all its farms with factories

• became a large farming country became a large farming country

People who worked as doctors, lawyers, managers, and clerks were members of ______.

• the middle class

• the professional class

• the working class

• settlement houses settlement houses

Tenements could be described as ______.

• healthful, clean places to live and raise a family

• factories that ran seven days a week

• crowded, run-down apartment buildings

• the main form of housing in major U.S. cities the main form of housing in major U.S. cities

Why was disease a problem in cities?

• No one was able to help the sick people.

• Almost all of the doctors lived in the suburbs

• Garbage and overcrowding allowed disease to spread.

• There were not enough doctors. There were not enough doctors.

The main purpose of a settlement house was to ______.

• teach people English

• provide hospitals and education

• provide jobs for the middle-class

• to help people in poverty to help people in poverty

By 1910 nearly ______ of the American population lived in cities

• 50%
• 25%
• 10%
• 70%

By the late 1800s, most immigrants lived in poor, run-down urban neighborhoods called

• slums
• suburbs
• Uptown
• ghettos

Middle class families moved to the ________ just outside the cities.

• slums
• suburbs
• villages
• towns

The ______ _____ referred to the gap between a few very wealthy people and large population of extremely poor.

• golden age
• gilded age
• industrial age
• urban age

In an effort to stop the spread of diseases, NYC began to ________ school children and provide visiting nurses to mothers of young children.

• quarantine
• vaccinate
• screen
• expel