US unit three sec 1+2

The decades following the Civil War witnessed a tremendous __ of American cities.

Expansion

__ determined which towns would grow, and which towns would vanish

Geography

The __ __ opened the Great Lakes region to settlement.

Erie Canal

__ breakthroughs in housing and transportation were also key in urban growth.

Technological

Elisha Otis-

Inventor of the passenger elevator

__ was a way for cities to transport large numbers of people

Mass transit

__ built the first subway system in 1897.

Boston

What was the first phase of immigration called?

Old immigration

What religious denomination were the old immigrants for the most part)?

Protestants

What part of Europe did the “old immigrants” come from?

Northern, Western

What was the second phase of immigration known as?

New immigration

What religious denomination did these “new immigrants” belong to?

Catholic/Jewish

What part of Europe did the “new immigrants” come from?

Southern/Eastern Europe