City Growth: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Trace the routes of the migration of African-Americans from Southern to Northern cities and identify the reasons for movement.
- Describe the living conditions for poor immigrants in industrialized cities.
- Relate political divisions to the reasons for the rise of the political machine.
- Identify groups that formed to help the needy.
- Identify key dates and the contributions of key people during the period of city growth.
- Define the following terms:
- Great Migration
- The Philadelphia Negro
- Tenement
- Tenement House Law
- Jacob Riis
- How the Other Half Lives
- Ghetto
- Political machine
- Political boss
- Graft
- Salvation Army
- Settlement house
- Hull House