What were the causes and effects of the growth of cities?
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Urbanization: the rapid growth of city population. People went
to cities to find jobs. Industry & cities grew near water, used
to transport goods.
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Urban Growth: 1870 - 1900
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1. Megalopolis. 2. Mass Transit. 3. Magnet for economic and
social opportunities. 4. Pronounced class distinctions. - Inner
& outer core 5. New frontier of opportunity for women. 6.
Squalid living conditions for many. 7. Political machines. 8.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
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New Architectural Style New Use of Space New Class Diversity
New Energy New Culture (Melting Pot) New Form of Classic Rugged
Individualism New Levels of Crime, Violence, & Corruption Make
a New Start New Symbols of Change & Progress The City as a New
Frontier?
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Merchants built department stores that sold consumers all
products in one store. Activities in the city included; museums,
music, circuses, & parks.
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Public transportation: electric streetcar, subway, & the
Brooklyn Bridge. Skyscrapers were built for many businesses.
Building up helped free up areas in the city and grow
industry.
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The rich lived in homes on the outside of town called the
suburbs. The middle class lived in townhomes or row homes. The poor
were crammed in apartments or dirty tenements.
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Tenement Slum Living
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Lodgers Huddled Together
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Tenement Slum Living
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Struggling Immigrant Families
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Tenements were too close together Very crowded conditions Fires
would destroy buildings Crime rates were high Disease spread due to
closeness Garbage was thrown out windows
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Dumbbell Tenement
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Dumbbell Tenement, NYC
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Cities started fire, police, public health, and sanitation
departments. Religious groups started clinics and the Salvation
Army. Jane Addams created settlement houses where poor could get
food, clothing, and education.
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Causes Effects
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Jobs, education, & a better life.better life. Jews faced
pogroms or religious violence in Russia. Mexicans left Mexico
because of political problems. New Immigrants came from southern
& eastern Europe. Also Asia & the Pacific.
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PushPull
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Most traveled on cramped ships in steerage or the bottom of the
boat. Europeans passed through Ellis Island (NY). Asians passed
through Angel Island (CA). Most settled in cities with their ethnic
groups with the same language and traditions.
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Little Italy
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Chinatown, NYC
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Assimilationbecoming apart of another culture. Assimilation
Immigrants tried to keep their own identities. Children of
immigrants assimilated quicker by learning English in school.
Immigrants worked in steel mills, meat- packing, railroads,
clothing factories, and skyscrapers.
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Nativists wanted to preserve the country with only native-born
citizens. Felt immigrants took jobs, overcrowded cities, brought
diseases, crime and would never be assimilated. Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882outlawed Chinese immigrants in the West.
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1900s push to educate both the poor & immigrants.
Compulsory Educationrequiring children to attend school until a
certain age. 6,000 High schools were built along with colleges
offering free or low-cost education. Interest in magazines,
newspapers, & books. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
New York World: 1 st cartoon strip Yellow Kid Newspapers would
exaggerate stories called Yellow Journalism to sell papers.