Chapter Six section twoThe Age of the RailroadsQuestions:-What impact did railroads have on the US?-Why were many people upset with the railroads?-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?Answers to Question One:-easier way of transporting goodsAnswers to Question Two:-charged different rates(famers)-some were killed and injured-eeach town ran on it's own town, which is how the world and US pushed for the time zones-new cities andtowns were built for places for workers to sleep and factories and reloadAnswers to Question Three:-Mon vs. Illinois allowed them to put restrictions on railraods-ten years later(a decade) said they could not.-in 1887 Supreme Court came oout with the Interstate Commere Cmmission which meant that Granger Laws success was short lived.Chapter 7 Section 2The Challange of Urbanization-urbanization-growth of cities mostly in regions of the Nrrtheast an MidwestQuestions:-Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?-What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?-What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?Answers to Question One:-immigrants-americanization movement- trying to make the immigrants more americanAnswers to Question Two:farmes left because:-technology was more eficient butt fewer laborers were needed-lost livelyhood-faced difficulties with harshism-hard to find water-lots of crimes such as pickpocketing and theieves,-had to collect water from streets in pales to heat at home from bathin purposes(water was very hard to find)-wasnt a dependable trash collector bad sanitation pron;lems due to sewage, horse manure, trash, factory smoke, etc. and scavengers didnt do jobs properly.-fires because low on water and housing made of wood, spread like wild fire-killing thousands of people, buildings, loss of thousands of dollars-two examples were San Francisco andAnswers to Question Three:-buy house on outside of town(transportation issues)-rent room in boarding house in the central city-street cars were introducedmass tansit-moved larger number of people along fixed routes-first police officer-first paid fire department-developed sprinkler-used concrete and bricks for housing instead of woods-Social Gospel Movement- christians eliminate poverty, community houses for mostly immigrants in slum neightborhoods learning to creat solutions for their problems-Jane Addams founded Settlement House for the poor to learn basic necessities of life, such as education, health, etc.
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