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Unit VI – A Growing America

Unit VI – A Growing America. Chapter 20 Section 2 – The Growth of Cities. The Growth of Cities. The Big Idea American cities experienced dramatic expansion and change in the late 1800s. Main Ideas

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Unit VI – A Growing America

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  1. Unit VI – A Growing America Chapter 20 Section 2 – The Growth of Cities

  2. The Growth of Cities • The Big Idea • American cities experienced dramatic expansion and change in the late 1800s. • Main Ideas • Both immigrants and native-born Americans moved to growing urban areas in record numbers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. • New technology and ideas helped cities change and adapt to rapid population growth.

  3. Main Idea 1: Both immigrants and native-born Americans moved to growing urban areas in record numbers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. • Immigrants and native-born Americans By 1900 • About 40 percent of Americans • New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, and Baltimore • 35+ cities

  4. Factors of Urban Growth • New immigrants • Families from rural areas • African Americans from the rural South • Railroads

  5. Growth of Urban Areas • What system put Chicago at the heart of the nation’s trade in lumber, grain and meat? • Railroad lines intersected in Chicago, bringing new workers to growing industries. What industry employed many new residents in Chicago? • How might Chicago’s population growth eventually change to the look of the city.

  6. Main Idea 2:New technology and ideas helped cities change and adapt to rapid population growth. • Cities challenges • building space • less crowding

  7. Building Skyscrapers • Typical city buildings in the mid-1800s • American steel industry late 1800s • Architects began using steel beams. • skyscrapers • Invention of the safety elevator

  8. Getting Around • Mass transit • Elevated trains, subways, electric trolleys • Many middle-class Americans

  9. New Ideas • mass culture • mass communication • department stores • world fairs and public entertainments • open public spaces

  10. Changing Cities • What building material allowed architects to build taller buildings? • Would you rather have lived in a city or in suburb in the 1880’s? • Name two newspaper publishers who used color comics to attract more readers? • How would the Marshall Field department store have attracted the business of 10th graders?

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