1. Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1

2. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City America in 1900 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Population Growth, 1860-1900 The Urbanization of America The Urbanization of America –The Lure of the City  Rapid Urban Growth –Migrations  Geographic Mobility  African-American Communities 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Immigration’s Contribution to Population Growth, 1860-1920 Sources of Immigration From Europe, 1860-1900 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Ethnic and Class Segregation in Milwaukee, 1850-1890. The Urbanization of America The Urbanization of America –The Ethnic City  The Diverse American City  Benefits of Ethnic Communities 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

6. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Scenes from a New York City “ghetto” fish market (Library of Congress) The Urbanization of America The Urbanization of America –Assimilation  Americanization  Changing Gender Roles 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City “Immigration Under Attack,” 1903 (New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Urbanization of America The Urbanization of America –Exclusion  Nativism  Immigration Restriction League  Advantages of Cheap Labor Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island (Library of Congress) 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Urban Landscape The Urban Landscape –The Creation of Public Space  Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux  “City Beautiful” Movement  The Back Bay Frog Pond at Boston Common, 1899 (Library of Congress) 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Mall in Central Park, 1902 (Library of Congress) 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

11. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Streetcar Suburbs in Nineteenth Century New Orleans The Urban Landscape The Urban Landscape –Housing the Well-to-Do  Growth of Suburbs 11 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Urban Landscape The Urban Landscape –Housing Workers and the Poor  Tenements  Jacob Riis Attic tenement house (Library of Congress) 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Urban Landscape The Urban Landscape –Urban Transportation  Transportation Problems  Mass Transit Elevated Railway in Chicago (Library of Congress) 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

14. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Urban Landscape The Urban Landscape –The “Skyscraper”  Steel-Girder Construction Empire Building in New York (Library of Congress) 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Strains of Urban Life Strains of Urban Life –Fire and Disease  Development of Professional Fire Departments –Environmental Degradation  Air Pollution  Public Health Service 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Strains of Urban Life Strains of Urban Life –Urban Poverty  Salvation Army –Crime and Violence  High Crime Rates –The Machine and the Boss  Boss Rule  Graft and Corruption  Reasons for Boss Rule 16 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Rise of Mass Consumption The Rise of Mass Consumption  Middle-Class Culture –Patterns of Income and Consumption  Rising Income  New Merchandising Techniques 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City The Rise of Mass Consumption The Rise of Mass Consumption –Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses  Chain Stores  Social Consequences of Mail-Order Catalogs –Department Stores  Impact of the Department Stores –Women as Consumers  National Consumer League 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Leisure in the Consumer Society Leisure in the Consumer Society –Redefining Leisure  New Conceptions of Leisure  Simon Patten  Public Leisure 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Amusement Park in Ohio (Library of Congress)

20. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Leisure in the Consumer Society Leisure in the Consumer Society –Spectator Sports  Major League Baseball  Growth of College Football  Gambling and Sports Woman with a Royal Flush (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) 20 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

21. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Leisure in the Consumer Society Leisure in the Consumer Society –Music and Theater  Ethnic Theater  Vaudeville –The Movies  Birth of a Nation 21 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hammerstein Theater (Library of Congress)

22. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Leisure in the Consumer Society Leisure in the Consumer Society –Working-Class Leisure  Importance of the Saloon –The Fourth of July  Importance of the Fourth of July 22 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Fourth of July Salute, 1893 (Library of Congress)

23. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Leisure in the Consumer Society Leisure in the Consumer Society –Private Pursuits  Dime Novels –Mass Communications  Emergence of Newspaper Chains 23 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

24. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City –The Literature of Urban America  Social Realism –Art in the Age of the City  Ashcan School The Brooklyn Bridge (Licensed for Use) 24 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

25. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City –The Impact of Darwinism  “Natural Selection”  “Pragmatism”  Growth of Anthropology 25 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Charles Darwin (Library of Congress)

26. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City –Toward Universal Schooling  Spread of Public Education  “Land-Grant” Institutions 26 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. University of Minnesota, ca. 1900 (Library of Congress)

27. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City High Culture in the Age of the City –Education for Women  Women’s Colleges “Our failures marry.” Administrator at Bryn Mawr 27 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

28. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City America in the World: Global Migrations 28 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

29. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City Coney Island, NY (Library of Congress) Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island 29 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.