Urbanization: During The Gilded Age1800’s

Objective: Describe effects of urbanization on living and working conditions

Urbanization - The increasing growth of population in cities - Farmers and other workers moved into the cities

to find jobs when they lost theirs on the farmers

Negative Effects of Urbanization

Housing - Overcrowded - Airless - Filthy - Row houses - Working class families in the city had two choices buy

an house on the outskits of the town or cramped rooms in the cities boarding houses.

Negative HousingPeople could either buy a house on the outskirts and pay for transportation or live in a cramped city.People would crowd a single family house with three single families.

The homes that were overcrowded were very unsanitary and

disgusting to live in Row houses were rooms houses that shared walls to create more room to live in. more than 2 families lived in each of these homes

Negative Negative HealthHealthThey did not have an effective watering or plumbing system for the cities. Water was polluted and spread cholera and typhoidWhen people could not get water they would collect water in buckets when it rained and they would heat it for baths.

Negative - Sanitation - Garbage in the streets - Sewage flowed through open gutters

Negative - Working Conditions

Farmers and industrial workers struggled to survive because prices and pay were falling.People worked for long hours and were not guaranteed safety.Wages were pitiful which in turn created labor organization unions.In the mines many people died Children worked as hard as the adults.Heavy debts also worsened peoples lives.

Positive Effects of Urbanization

In advancement in new technology, which brought new a exciting inventions to come in the near future.

New Technologies

There were a lot of advances in transportation and communication networks Many inventions were created in this time… such as the light bulb, generator and the first power plant created in New York.

Alexander introduced the telephone

Elevator

Positive - New Technology Bridges help set the tone for expansion all across the country and gave people new ideas for the future to come.Skyscrapers Street lights Sewers Trolley cars

Positive - More Suburbs El trains Subways Printing such as magazines, newspapers, books Airplanes Photographs

Positive - Cultural Benefits Schools Art galleries Libraries Books/ literature Museums

Positive - Entertainment Culture Theater Amusement parks Spectator sports such as baseball Bicycling and Tennis Mass Entertainment

Positive - Other Cultural Benefits Urban shoppingThe Department store The Chain store Advertisements Catalogs and PFD

Philosophies Puritan Work Ethic

Work Hard Social Gospel

Honor each otherFollow their beliefs of God Keep out the devil in their hearts Punish those who did not follow the Anglican form of worship

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