History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0474 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Suburbs
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The idea
Electric railways let middle-class families work in the city and live outside it, and suburbs grew quickly in the eighteen eighties and nineties.
In practice
A clerk riding the trolley each evening to a house beyond the crowded centre.
Where people slip
The anchor says they sought escape from the city's chaos. Unit thirteen returns to the suburbs on a vast scale.
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