STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 19 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
URBANIZATION
  • What factors led immigrants to American cities in the late nineteenth century? How did their arrival change the cities in which they settled?

  • How and why did the social geography of the American city change in the late nineteenth century?

INDUSTRY AND LABOR
  • What new social divisions accompanied business expansion and industrialization?

  • What kinds of organizations did workers form in the late nineteenth century, and why did they start them? How successful were they?

CITY LIFE
  • How did urban industrialism transform home and family life?

  • What led to the rise of the big-city boss? Whose interests did late-nineteenth-century city governments serve?

LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD
  • How did early-twentieth-century American cities differ from their early-nineteenth-century counterparts?

  • How did the rise of urban industrialism change Americans’ sense of themselves as a people?