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=**Chapter 18: The Age of the City**=

** Main Ideas: **

 * 1) The social and economic lure of the city attracted both foreign and domestic migrations, and these newcomers adjusted to city life in ways that transformed their new urban homes.
 * 2) Rapid urban growth forced adaptations to severe problems of government mismanagement, poverty, crime, inadequate housing, and precarious health and safety conditions.
 * 3) The urban environment served as the locus for new philosophical ideas, expanded leisure opportunities, fresh approaches to education, rapid expansion in journalism, and a new consumerism.
 * 4) The new order of "high" urban culture inspired both serious writers and artists to render realistic portrayals of the seamy side of city life, while many middle- and upper-class Americans were engaging in expanded forms of leisure and entertainment.

** Handouts/Homework: **

 * DBQs:**

Analyze the primary causes of the population shift from a rural to an urban environment in the US between 1875 and 1925. (2004 FRQ4 Form B)
 * FRQs:**

For whom and to what extent was the America West a land of opportunity from 1865 to 1890? (2006 FORM B Q4) Identify and analyze the factors that changed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century. (2002 FRQ3 FORM B)