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1 Urbanization and the Gilded Age
Interactive Graphic Organizer by Lance McConkey Sequoyah High School

2 Suburbs Workers Housing City With Industry Mass Urban Culture Downtown
Mass Transit Suburbs Settlement Houses Workers Housing Fredrick Law Olmstead Coney Island Electric Park Sanitation & Public Works Macy’s Glen Echo Park Amusement Parks City With Industry Department Stores Wana- Maker’s Mass Urban Culture Downtown Main Street Joseph Pulitzer Materials Professional Sports William Hearst Yellow Journalism City Parks Sky Scrapers Wainwright Central Park

3 Sloss Furnaces Birmingham Alabama

4 Company Housing Birmingham

5 Hull House Settlement House

6 Sanitation Problems

7 Birmingham 1888 Suburbs

8 Frederick Law Olmstead
Park Designed by Olmstead Olmstead Olmstead Designed Subdivision

9 Electric Trolley and Suburbs
Mass Transit Electric Trolley and Suburbs Original Mass Transit

10 New York Cityscape 1910

11 Wannamaker’s Grand Depot 1876

12 Macy’s 1908 New York

13 Wanamaker’s 1903 Philadelphia

14 Sky Scrapers Home Insurance Building Chicago
Woolworth Building, New York Flatiron Building, New York Home Insurance Building Chicago

15 Sky Scraper Materials Steel Plate Glass Otis Steam Elevator

16 Wainwright Building Chicago

17 Culture and Amusement Amusement Parks Mass Newspapers
Professional Sporting Events

18 Amusement Parks

19 Coney Island New York

20 Mass Distribution of Newspapers

21 Joseph Pulitzer

22 William Randolph Hearst

23 Professional Sports Boxing Baseball Golf

24 Maypole in Central Park, New York City
City Parks Maypole in Central Park, New York City

25 Central Park

26 Electric Park Baltimore, Maryland

27 Glen Echo Park

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