americans migrate to cities nyc = 800,000 (1860) and 3.5 million (1900) immigrants lacked $ to...
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UrbanizationChapter 13 Section 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 Better paying jobs More activity
Pop growth = demand for land increase = land price increase
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
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
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