Ch 10 ws #2

American History

1. How much did Chicago grow in the years between the Civil War and the turn of the century?

2. For what reasons did most immigrants move to cities and work in factories instead of doing other work?

3. Why did many rural people also move to the cities?

4. What are skyscrapers and why did they need to be built?

5. Why was mass transit necessary? What were some early attempts at it?

6. What were the differences where the different classes lived in the cities?

7. What are tenements?

8. What are some problems these cities faced? Who got the blame for many of these problems? Why do you think they were blamed?