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...")

Questions: 528-537

FYC:

1. From pages 528-530: How was America changed, politically and socially, by rising industrialization?
2. What is a labor union? Why did they increase after the Civil War?
3. How did corporations combat and resist labor unions?
4. Name two labor unions and their similarities and differences?
5. What was the Haymarket Square episode?