Urbanization Warm-up: Watch the video and think about the following questions 1. Why did farming families move to the cities? 2. How was the construction industry affected by urbanization? 3. How did politicians take advantage of the immigrants to gain power?
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Urbanization Warm-up: Watch the video and think about the following questions 1.Why did farming families move to the cities? 2.How was the construction.
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Urbanization
Warm-up:Watch the video and think about the following questions
1. Why did farming families move to the cities?
2. How was the construction industry affected by urbanization?
3. How did politicians take advantage of the immigrants to gain power?
Changing face of the cities…
• As Immigrants continued arriving single family homes were torn down– 5 and 6 story buildings
replacing them– Elevators
• Why relocate?– Farming hardships– New machinery
Booming cities:• New York City• Philadelphia• Chicago• Saint Louis• New Orleans
Bursting at the seams with people
Living Conditions
• Some employers provided housing for employees
Tenement: low-cost apartments designed to house as many families as the owner could pack in
• Could transform an area into a slum
What is a slum?
• Poverty• Overcrowding• Neglect• No trees/grass• Soot/dirty air• Rats• Open sewers
1905 account of tenements in an Italian district of NYC
“death traps, closely built, jammed together, with no side openings. Twenty-five percent of the yard space is damp and gloomy…where the houses are three or more rooms in depth, the middle ones are dark, without outside ventilation…there is no fire protection whatsoever.”
Fires become a BIG problem!
• Everything so close together
• Small fire could consume everything– Jump roof to roof