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Page 1: Americans Migrate to Cities  NYC = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900)  Immigrants  Lacked $ to buy farms and edu for higher paying jobs  Rural

UrbanizationChapter 13 Section 2

Page 2: Americans Migrate to Cities  NYC = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900)  Immigrants  Lacked $ to buy farms and edu for higher paying jobs  Rural

Americans Migrate to Cities

NYC = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900)

Immigrants Lacked $ to buy farms and edu for higher

paying jobs

Rural Americans Better paying jobs More activity

Pop growth = demand for land increase = land price increase

Page 3: Americans Migrate to Cities  NYC = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900)  Immigrants  Lacked $ to buy farms and edu for higher paying jobs  Rural

Skyscrapers

Land was so expensive that people started building up!

Tall, steel framed

Chicago’s ten-story Home Insurance Building (1885) –First skyscraper

Louis Sullivan—designed skyscrapers in Chicago—simple lines and spacious windows, new durable plate glass

Page 4: Americans Migrate to Cities  NYC = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900)  Immigrants  Lacked $ to buy farms and edu for higher paying jobs  Rural

Mass Transit

Horsecar—railroad car pulled by horses

1890—70% horsecar

1873—San Fran cable car

1887—Frank J. Sprague electric trolley car

Chicago—elevated railroad

Boston and NYC--subway