A Nation of Cities (Topic 2.5)

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Across
  1. 2. — Settlement house in Chicago that provided education and childcare for immigrants.
  2. 5. — Government projects such as roads, sewers, and sanitation that improved city living conditions.
  3. 7. — Overcrowded apartment buildings that housed many working-class and immigrant families.
  4. 8. — Social reformer who founded Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor.
  5. 10. — Public transportation systems that moved large numbers of people efficiently.
  6. 12. — Invention by Elisha Otis that made tall buildings practical and safe.
  7. 13. — Residential areas outside city centers where many middle- and upper-class families moved.
  8. 14. — Innovation that transformed city transportation and helped cities expand outward.
  9. 15. — Architect who designed some of the first skyscrapers.
Down
  1. 1. — Disease that spread rapidly through unsanitary urban neighborhoods in the 1800s.
  2. 3. — A tall, steel-framed building made possible by new construction technologies.
  3. 4. — Book by Jacob Riis that revealed the harsh realities of life in New York City’s slums.
  4. 6. — The movement of people from rural areas to cities during the late 1800s.
  5. 9. — Landscape architect who designed city parks like Central Park in New York.
  6. 11. — Muckraker and photographer who exposed poor living conditions in tenements.