Friday, February 22, 2013

Questions: 539-545

The Brooklyn Bridge, 1903 (Shorpy)

FYC:

  1. What American cities in 1890 had populations of more than a million?
  2. What technologies allowed cities to grow "up and out" in the Industrial Era?
  3. What drew people to the big city? Details, please.
  4. Describe a typical dumbbell tenement.
  5. Describe the New Immigrants of the Gilded Age.
  6. What were the contributing factors behind the New Immigration? What "pushed" and what "pulled" the stream of immigration? ("Southern Europe Uprooted" to "Reactions...")

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