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Chapter 7-2: The Urban World

Key Words/People:
 * Skyscrapers:large buildings to accommodate the number of residents
 * Elisha Otis: developed a mechanized elevator
 * Suburbs: residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
 * Nouveau Riche: a french term meaning "newly rich"
 * Conspicuous Consumption: many of the Nouveau Riche spent their wealth freely so everyone would know hoe successful they were and this is what the behavior was called
 * tenements: poorly built apartments
 * settlement houses: community service centers
 * Jane Addams: was at the forefront of American settlement-houses movement
 * Janie Porter Barrett: founded one of the first African American settlement houses
 * Social Gospel: called for people to apply christian principled to address social problems
 * Caroline Bartlett: organized people's Church in Kalamazoo

Key Events: The Changing City Upper-Class Life Middle-class life How the Poor Lived The Drive for Reform
 * 1800s technology and more immigrants started to form the urban landscape and percentage of Americans living in cities doubled form 20 to 40%
 * Changes were needed to accommodate the higher percentages of people. Skyscrapers and mechanized elevators and such were created to make it easier for the numbers in people and to keep up with the evolution of technology
 * with the improvements of mass transit, workers could afford to live outside of the city which is where suburbs came to popular
 * Nouveau Riche: a french term meaning "newly rich"
 * Conspicuous Consumption: many of the Nouveau Riche spent their wealth freely so everyone would know hoe successful they were and this is what the behavior was called
 * demand for educated workers with a mastery of specialized fields. 1870s and 1880s professional schools and organizations were formed to set standards, issue licenses, and review practices within specialized occupations
 * most married middle class women worked at home
 * 43,000 lived in tenements they housed more than 1.6 million poor New Yorkers in 1900
 * settlement houses: community service centers
 * Jane Addams: was at the forefront of American settlement-houses movement
 * Janie Porter Barrett: founded one of the first African American settlement houses
 * Social Gospel: called for people to apply christian principled to address social problems
 * Caroline Bartlett: organized people's Church in Kalamazoo