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The Age of the City

Urbanization MigrationImmigrationAssimilationExclusion American Protective Association Immigration Restriction League

Redefining the city Public Parks Frederick Law Olmstead Public cultural centers Philanthropy 1893 Columbian Exposition of Chicago

Redefining the City Housing Developments Suburbs Tenement buildings Jacob Riis InfrastructureTransportation Roads & bridges Brooklyn Bridge Skyscrapers

Tenement Building in New York

Child Labor in the Textile Mills

Frederick Law Olmstead

Jacob Riis’ Photographs

Children on the street

The Bar Room

Impoverished Workers

Brooklyn Bridge

Problems of the City Disasters Great Fires ChicagoEarthquakes

“There’ll be a hot time in the ole town tonight”

Great Chicago Fire

Great White City—Rebuilding for World’s Fair 1893

San Francisco Earthquake 1906

Earthquake 1906

Problems of the city (con’t) Department of Water Works Medical and sanitation advances Medical and sanitation advancesCrimePoverty “deserving poor” Salvation Army Crime rate increases Political machine William M. Tweed

Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed

Tweed a favorite of Thomas Nast

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