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Big City Big Problems

Population Trends: Urban population increases faster than rural after 1880. U.S. is Urban nation by 1920.

New York City Population in 1860: 800,000 • Population in 1900: 3,500,000 Where should we put our things?

What Enabled Cities to Grow?

The Skyscraper Land was limited and expensive Steel was stronger and cheaper electric safety elevator invented New York City’s Flat Iron Building (1902)

Mass Transit Transitions First there were horse cars and then cable cars. Next the electric trolley and finally the subway.

Where Did Different Classes Live?

John D. Rockefeller Lived on “Millionaire’s Row” (Fifth Ave.) Rockefeller’s Annual income: $60,000,000

Middle-Class Lived in the newer streetcar suburbs Brooklyn Bridge (1881) Lived in the newer streetcar suburbs Annual salary for college professor: $1,100

Working Class: Lived in multi-family apartments (tenements) Avg. Annual salary for industrial worker: $490

Tenements Crowded multi-family apartment buildings 2/3s of New York’s 1.5 million lived here

Tenements were unsafe: pollution & disease.

So What Kind of Problems?

Don’t worry- I’ve got a solution! Big City: Big Problems Crime Violence Fire Disease Pollution Don’t worry- I’ve got a solution! William “Boss” Tweed

What’s the Solution?

Political Machines an informal political group designed to gain and keep power. Exchange services for votes and kickbacks and bribes from contractors.

Party Bosses politicians who ran political machines of big cities. Graft- profit through dishonest means.

Tammany Hall New York Democratic political machine “Are there any more repeaters out here that want to vote again?” - “Boss” Tweed

William “Boss” Tweed Notorious New York City party boss of 1860s and 70s Arrested for corruption and sent to prison in 1872.

He was later caught and returned to jail he died in 1878

What Next?