URSI 110--The City

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US: Age of Steam & Iron (1850-1880)

Key Ideas:

• Civil War
• Immigration/crowding/public health 1, 2, 3
• Morrill Act
• Homestead Act
• Transcontinental Railroad 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

City Form

• Railroad towns & mining towns 1, 2, 3, 4
• Minneapolis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Architectural styles:
1. Picturesque
2. 2^nd Empire 1, 2, 3
3. Richardson Romanesque 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
4. Queen Anne 1, 2, 3

Public Buildings

• Engineering as Architecture
1. Brooklyn Bridge 1, 2, 3
2. Eiffel Tower 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Central Park 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Commercial/Industrial

• Crystal Palace 1, 2, 3
• Philadelphia’s Grand Depot
• Portable power 1, 2a, 2, 3
• Oil

Residential/Daily Life

• Tenement buildings 1, 2, 3
• Trolleys
• Rural schools

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Revised 24 May 06