MOVING TO THE CITY SEC PAGES Define: urban - tenement – slum – suburb – Gilded Age – settlement house Identify: Jacob Riis – Jane Addams –

GROWTH OF CITIES US changing from rural to urban (cities) nation – people came to cities for jobs (farm workers – women – African Americans) Railroads helped transport people – raw materials – Chicago – Kansas City – meatpacking centers Pittsburgh – steel & iron New York – San Francisco – seaports of trade

CITY LIFE Tenement – building in which several families rent rooms – little sanitation – safety Slums – poor, run down urban neighborhoods Jacob Riis – photographer How the Other Half Lives – pictures of slum conditions

HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES

SUMMARIZE Vocab term that means cities. Vocab term - building in which several families rent rooms – little sanitation –safety Vocab term that means poor, run down urban neighborhoods Jacob Riis book that showed how poor lived in slums of cities

GILDED AGE Suburbs – residential areas outside city – middle class moved here to enjoy a more comfortable life – hot water, electricity, indoor toilets Rich lived in mansions – huge estates – servants – parties – J.P Morgan – Henry Frick – Vanderbilts – Rockefeller “Gilded Age” – name given to US in late 1800s, referring to the extravagant wealth of a few and the terrible poverty that lay underneath

CITIES IN CRISIS Overcrowded cities –crime rates rose - fires Poor sanitation – health problems – spread of disease Settlement house – institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services ( medical care, child care, libraries, classes in English) Hull House – Chicago – started by Jane Addams YMCA & YWCA – provided recreational centers

HULL HOUSE

THE CHANGING CITY Cities began building skyscrapers – space limited – build up, not out Woolworth Building – 55 stories high in 1913 Central Park – New York City Streetcars provided public transportation -cable cars – trolleys –subways Streets were paved – use of asphalt made streets smoother - quieter Bridges built ( Eads Bridge across Mississippi River – Brooklyn Bridge - NY )

TICKET OUT THE DOOR Vocab term – residential area outside of a city Name given to US in late 1800s, referring to the extravagant wealth of a few and the terrible poverty that lay underneath What is Jane Addams known for? List 3 problems cities faced as populations grew. Give several examples of how they corrected problems.