Today’s Questions How did industrialization and inventions affect cities? Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a tenement. How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?
Vocabulary urbanization – growth of cities because of industrial jobs and improved transportation
Vocabulary tenement – an apartment house that is run-down and overcrowded
Vocabulary slum – neighborhood of overcrowded and dangerous tenements
Vocabulary settlement houses – helped improve the lives of the poor & immigrants by providing daycare, education, and healthcare in settlement houses.
Vocabulary political machine – corrupt organization that controlled local governments by giving food, jobs, bribes, and favors to voters
Living Conditions in the Gilded Age
Cities Change Urbanization Growth of cities because of Industry New factory jobs New people Immigrants Ex-Farmers
Cities Change Technology Steel in skyscrapers Electricity Elevators Streetcars
Life in the City Tenement Run-down and overcrowded apartment house Old buildings + Landlord neglect + Poor design + Little government control = Dangerous conditions No running water
Today’s Questions How did industrialization and inventions affect cities? Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a tenement. How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Life in the City Slums Neighborhood of tenement buildings Trash thrown between buildings
Reforms Social gospel movement Improve lives of the poor Abolish child labor Settlement houses offered services for poor and immigrants Daycare Education Health care Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago
Political Machines Political machine Controls local government by trading favors for votes Positives Built parks, schools, sewers, and orphanages Help immigrants get started Negatives Dishonest elections Bribery Jobs and food only to supporters
Today’s Questions Why did/do immigrants come to the US? Who were the “new immigrants” during the Gilded Age?
push factors – forces that drive people out of their native lands such as population growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, the Industrial Revolution, and religious/political turmoil. pull factors – forces that draw people toward a new place. The three main pull factors for the US were freedom, economic opportunity, and abundant land.
new immigrants – immigrants to America from southern and eastern Europe around/after 1900. The largest groups were southern Italians, Jews, Catholics, Poles, and Russians.