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Chapter Report #4 Name: __Annalie_Guzzo_____ GEOG/URBN 1200-001 The City in the Western Tradition NetID: __acg19006_________ All responses to the following questions must be derived from the course’s textbook. (No Internet sources) Type or mark your responses in the space provided. Submit this sheet with your input via HuskyCT by due date/time. Colonial Towns in North America – Industrial Revolution, U.K. & U.S. 1. Where did the French claim in North America during the 17 th and 18 th centuries? Describe by referring to three major bodies of water. The French had claimed at least a third of the continent, focused on the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence and Mississippi drainage basins. They established a thin web of trading posts and military outposts as the control points for this extensive territory. Detroit is located at a strategic position on the Great Lakes where the upper Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, and Huron) are linked to the lower Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario). Lake Huron is connected to Lake Erie by a pair of rivers and a small lake. The French understood the strategic and commercial potential of controlling access to the Great Lakes and so moved to develop a fortified town at this location in 1702. 2. What was the main reason for Boston’s stagnating population growth between 1740 and 1776 that was surpassed by Philadelphia for this period? By 1740, most of the available land area had been occupied and further growth was limited. Boston initially developed on a topographic feature called a tombolo, an off shore island connected to the shore by a narrow neck of land. In the case of Boston, the tombolo was relatively small and very irregularly shaped. This provided a lengthy waterfront that attracted the earliest development. However, the curiously shaped feature that had provided the advantage of a lengthy shoreline during the city’s early years now became a limitation that Boston has continued to grapple with for much of the time since then. Boston’s population in 1776 is estimated to have been the same as that of 35 years earlier, but Philadelphia, which was founded much later and had been smaller than Boston, has shot far ahead of Boston in population size. 3. In Philadelphia during the colonial period, properties facing the two rivers were long and narrow. Why is this the case? Properties facing the two river fronts were long and narrow to provide more properties with river access . 4. Which medieval city is given as an example of putting-out system prior to the Industrial Revolution? Bruges 5. In Manchester, U.K. during the Industrial Revolution, the average ages of death among tradesmen and laborers were less than half of those in the countryside. (Choose: True / False) 6. In Manchester, U.K. during the Industrial Revolution, where did the middle classes live? Housing for the lower classes encircled the newly developed factory district and was, in turn, surrounded by better, newer housing occupied by the middle classes. 7. Who was the titular leader of the Park Movement that influenced many U.S. cities with parks? Frederick Law Olmsted 8. According to the text, the greatest influx of European immigrants to the United States was to come in the ( first / second / third) decades of the 20 th century. (Choose one)