A Nation of Cities (Topic 2.5)

2. — Settlement house in Chicago that provided education and childcare for immigrants.
5. — Government projects such as roads, sewers, and sanitation that improved city living conditions.
7. — Overcrowded apartment buildings that housed many working-class and immigrant families.
8. — Social reformer who founded Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor.
10. — Public transportation systems that moved large numbers of people efficiently.
12. — Invention by Elisha Otis that made tall buildings practical and safe.
13. — Residential areas outside city centers where many middle- and upper-class families moved.
14. — Innovation that transformed city transportation and helped cities expand outward.
15. — Architect who designed some of the first skyscrapers.

1. — Disease that spread rapidly through unsanitary urban neighborhoods in the 1800s.
3. — A tall, steel-framed building made possible by new construction technologies.
4. — Book by Jacob Riis that revealed the harsh realities of life in New York City’s slums.
6. — The movement of people from rural areas to cities during the late 1800s.
9. — Landscape architect who designed city parks like Central Park in New York.
11. — Muckraker and photographer who exposed poor living conditions in tenements.