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skyscraper |
Tall buildings with many floors supported by a lightweight steel frame |
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suburb |
residential area on the outskirts of a city |
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department stores |
sold all kind of goods in different sections or departments |
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vaudeville |
variety show made popular in the 1800s that included comedians, song-and-dance routines, and acrobots |
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ragtime |
a new kind of music with a lively, rhythmic sound |
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how did city planners and architects create more space downtown? |
City planners and architects build up instead of out . |
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how are traffic problems solve? |
People built electric streetcars and trolley that were fast and quiet and clean,subway and elevatorelectric train |
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why planners want to preserve open space for parks? |
they believe that open space would clam city dwellers |
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how did shopping change in the cities? |
there were department stores that sold all kinds of goods in different sections or department |
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why did sports become so popular throughout the country? |
sports provided an escape from the pressure of work |
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what cultural activities became popular to city dwellers? |
? rich people went to theater , opera, and symphony and middle people went to vaudeville and poor people went to circus and parks |
