Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects
US History
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URBANIZATION
• UrbanizationUrbanization process by which more of a nations population becomes concentrated in cities
• Why?– Factories built in the cities – Job opportunities – Immigrants seek jobs & settle in cities – Rural farmers come to the cities
Urbanization: Negative Effects
Urbanization: Negative Effects
• Housing– Not enough affordable housing to keep up
with the population– Many forced into homelessness or tenements
• TenementsTenements inner-city multi unit dwellings (4-6 stories high)– Usually divided and re-divided.– http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_vi
rtual.html
Tenements
Tenements
Tenements
• What are some problems that the tenement living conditions caused?
• Why would people live in such conditions?
Urbanization: Negative Effects
• Crime– Due to poverty crime
increases in the urban centers of America
• 1881: 25 murders per 1 million people
• 1898: 107 murders per 1 million people
• Health– Tuberculosis– Cholera – Typhoid– Diphtheria
Urbanization: Negative Effects
• Political Machines– Tammany Hall
• In return for votes, bosses provided jobs, built parks, distributed food & clothing to the needy, but…
• UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY• “When you’ve voted ‘em with their whiskers on, you take ‘em to a barber and scrape off
the chin fringe. Then you voted ‘em again…Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote ‘em a third time with the mustache…Then clean off the mustache and vote ‘em plain face. That makes every one of ‘em for four votes.”