Discuss the development of suburbs in the United States. Discuss reasons for the growth of suburbs

Question

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Answer 1

1. Suburbs developed for many reasons, including the availability of the automobile, racist fears of crime and violence in the cities, the comfort of owning a larger house with a yard, proximity of schools and shops, federal mortgage programs, the interstate highway system, public funds for railroads and schools.
2. The mass production of the automobile allowed people to live farther away from work.
3. After the Civil War, large numbers of black people moved from the rural South to northern cities, and whites were concerned about crime and violence; cities were increasingly seen as crime infested, poor, and populated by “dangerous” minorities. The white middle classes began moving out of the cities (“white flight”), into outlying areas called suburbs.
4. Federal mortgage programs and the creation of the interstate highway system, as well as public funds for commuter railroads and local schools, provided the opportunity to move to the suburbs. Jobs and amenities went to the suburbs as well.