Fill in the Blanks Word Bank subway Salvation Army YWCA San Francisco the Gilded Age discrimination skyscraper middle class settlement houses immigrants Brooklyn Bridge health industrialization tenements ___________________________ 1. ___________________________ 2. ___________________________ 3. ___________________________ 4. ___________________________ 5. ___________________________ 6. ___________________________ 7. ___________________________ 8. Growth of Cities In major urban centers, (1)___ and their children made up 80% or more of the population in 1890. Native-born Americans moved from rural areas to cities when (2)___ changed work on farms. African Americans who moved to Northern cities after 1914 hoped to find jobs as well as less (3)___ and violence. In large, crowded cities, the poorest residents lived in (4)___. The (5)___ included the families of professional people. The name (6)___ suggested both the extravagant wealth of the time and the poverty that lay underneath. Cities in Crisis Overcrowding in tenement districts created sanitation and (7)___ problems. The (8)___ set up soup kitchens and opened shelters for the poor. Organizations such as the YMCA ___________________________ 9. ___________________________ 10. ___________________________ 11. ___________________________ 12. ___________________________ 13.. ___________________________ 14. and (9)___ offered recreation centers where city youth could meet and play. (10)___ provided medical care and nurseries for the poor, as well as classes in English, music, arts and crafts. The Changing City The world’s first (11)___ was a ten-story office building in Chicago. The need for better transportation led to the construction of cable-car lines in (12)___ and the nation’s first (13)___ in Boston. Using new construction technology, architects and engineers designed huge steel bridges, s