384 ChApTEr 17 | ChaLLenGes to the statUs QUo | period seven 1890 –1945
Document 17.1 Chicago Streetcar
1900
By the early twentieth century, electric streetcars had replaced most horse-drawn street-
cars and become increasingly popular forms of public transportation in American cities.
This photograph was taken in the late nineteenth century at the intersection of State
Street and Madison Street in Chicago.
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Identify: What is happening in the photograph?
Analyze: Does technology appear to divide or unite people in this image? Explain.
Evaluate: How did greater mobility influence the development of a new urban
identity? Compare this image with the description of the view from a Chicago
streetcar in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (Doc 16.6).
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