1.03 City Life History Quiz

What was Social Darwinism?

An idea advocated by the rich to explain the big gap between rich and poor. The phrase "survival of the fittest" was coined to explain why rich were rich and poor were poor.

How did innovative transportation changes, such as the streetcar, affect the development of nineteenth-century cities?

Cities could grow and expand to the suburbs because people no longer had to walk everywhere.

Which of the following best describes how cities grew in the late 1800s/early 1900s United States?

Cities grew rapidly as both immigrants and native-born citizens sought higher paying factory jobs.

He designed New York's Central Park as a natural escape from urban life?

Frederick Law Olmstead

He published How the Other Half Lives that brought attention to the plight of the urban poor?

Jacob Riis

Which of the following architects was instrumental in helping the city of Chicago rebuild after the fire and is known for using the idea that a building's function should influence its design?

Louis Sullivan

All were true about Political Machines, except:

Occurred mostly in small towns, not in big cities.

Which of the following was not a popular form of entertainment in the late 1800s/early 1900s?

Television

Which is not a characteristic of cities in the 1800s?

a huge decline in poverty and crime

All were forms of transportation that helped cities expand and grow beyond their original limits to the suburbs in the late 1800s, except:

automobiles