Immigrant Experiences Share what you put for each group and add to your own chart
Urban Game Follow instructions and use the key provided!
Prompt #5 List 2-3 positive and 2-3 negative effects you noticed or predict to occur in your town from the Urban Game? Consider when we added: services (schools, stores, pubs, churches, etc.), factories, tenements, roads, railroads, etc.
Urbanization Notes
Growing Cities Immigrants & people from rural areas move in Factory jobs increase New machines – higher production African Americans move north to escape racism
Chicago 1871 Chicago 1916
How Cities Grew Moved to suburbs—subways and public transportation Steel skyscrapers Invention of the elevator Specialized areas in cities (i.e., banking, retail)
Tenements/Slums
Urban Living Conditions Tenements—low-cost housing; dirty, cramped Dumbbell tenement Conditions: no trees, air is dark, open sewers Danger of fire Chicago Fire of 1871
“5 cents a spot”—crowded apartment in New York City
Urban Living Conditions (cont.) Dirty air & space diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, etc.) Spread in summer Fresh air havens on waterfront Bad drinking water typhoid and cholera Added chlorine & replaced outhouses
Results of City Growth Nativism Political Machines
Nativism: favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants Why was this a result of city growth?
Why were these a result of city growth and immigration? Political Machines: unofficial city organizations designed to keep a certain group in power and usually had a single powerful “boss” Why were these a result of city growth and immigration?
Why would it be called this? The Gilded Age Why would it be called this?
A thin layer of “gold” covering the poverty and corruption of the time
Draw a picture that represents 5 ideas of city growth during the IR. Exit Pass Draw a picture that represents 5 ideas of city growth during the IR. Must include the following in your picture: urbanization effects, nativism, and political machines
Prompt #7 List 5 effects that came from industrialization, immigration, and urbanization.
Question Review In your group, come up with 5 good questions you might see on a test Put the answer on the back of the sticky note Categories (technologies, monopolists, working conditions, unions/strikes, immigration, urbanization) CHECK IN YOUR QUESTIONS
Political Machines Write a skit depicting how a political machine operated during the Industrial Revolution. Reference pg. 308 if needed.
Shared Drawings Draw an image to represent the corruption and poverty of the Gilded Age.