5.9 Society and the Industrial Age

Question 1

Tenement apartment buildings

Answer 1

Tenements are apartment buildings, but the term often is used negatively. In the United States, tenements housed the majority of new immigrants to the country in the 19th and early 20th century. These buildings were cramped, crowded, and poorly constructed.

Question 2

Urban slums

Answer 2

Areas of a city where a low-income familiers are forced to live in unhealthy living conditions.

Question 3

Urbanization

Answer 3

Industrialization pulled people from rural areas into cities for jobs.

Question 4

White-collar workers

Answer 4

Office workers typically condisidered middle class.

Question 5

Because wages were low in factories, families would often be forced to send their children to work in the factories too. Where else were young children forced to work, usually at great cost to their health?

Answer 5

coal mines

Question 6

Working-class women were the primary laborers in what type of factories?

Answer 6

Textile mills

Question 7

How did mass production of consumer goods affect their price?

Answer 7

Their price went down.