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Marisa Miladinoivc Room: 205 3/25/09 Social Studies

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__**1. Identify:**__
 * Jacob Riis** worked as a carpenter in Copenhagen before emigrating to the United States in 1870. Unable to find work, he was often forced to spend the night in police station lodging houses.
 * Jane Addams** was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and one of the first American women to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 * Elisha Otis** invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in 1854.
 * Louis Sullivan** was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
 * Fredrick Law Olmsted** was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.

__**2. Define:**__
 * Tenement** - Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a large city.
 * Slum** - Any squalid, run-down place to live.
 * Suburb** - A district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.
 * The Glided Age** - A time period in the United States of America during the late 19th Century when some activity or skill was at its peak. The wealth polarization derived primarily from industrial and population expansion.
 * Settlement House** - The act or state of settling or the state of being settled.

3. The three serious problems facing American cities in the late 1800s are: The United States is facing what has been described as its "most serious instance of domestic terrorism" to date, the FBI has warned.

Officials say a second generation of Somali immigrants is becoming increasingly radicalised and could pose a growing threat to security.

The warnings come amid the revelation that 20 young Somali American men who returned to their war-torn homeland have been radicalised by a group linked to al-Qaeda.

4. The Philadelphia inner suburbs of Upper Darby, Landsdowne, and East Lansdowne, developed over more than half a century during several different transportation technologies. Investments in commuting railroad, electric streetcar, rail elevated-subway, and motor vehicle networks led to active land subdivision, especially during economic boom periods of the late 1880s, 1900–09, and the 1920s. Many opportunities for residential development created by transportation investments, however, remained unfulfilled for lengthy periods after initial subdivision of land. Residential development is best viewed as a sequential process in which the final construction stage is related not only to transportation but also to such factors as economic cycles and affordability of housing. Affordability, involving the relation of average incomes to suburban housing and commuting costs, was one factor among others that influenced the pace of suburban residential construction. In this way, housing affordability also helped to shape the broad patterns of residential location through different transportation eras.

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