1. What is your favorite city? Why?
World’s largest city…
US most populated city…
By 1900, most major US cities had a population of 500,000 and were continuing to grow!

2. New York City - 8,336,697

3. New York City, 1900

4. Chicago

5. Philadelphia

6. Boston

7. How did cities have to change to accommodate the residents?
Transportation Networks
Architecture
Mass Culture

8. Transportation Mass Transit Railroad systems Subways (Boston) Trolleys
Since cities offered jobs, people flocked there and transportation had to accommodate their arrival and movement through the city.
Mass Transit
Railroad systems
Subways (Boston)
Trolleys
Cable Cars

9. Architecture Skyscrapers Suburbs
Most buildings were 5 stories at the time.

10. Mass Culture leisure and cultural activities shared by many people
Newspapers and comic strips: Pulitzer and Hearst
Department Stores – Marshall Field
World Fairs
Amusement Parks
Central Park
Coney Island
What is Marshall Field’s today?

11. Name that City
Chicago
Boston
NYC
Philadelphia
Baltimore

12. Write your research on a piece of paper to be collected.
ACTIVITY
FREE CHOICE
Choose a topic, or multiple, from today’s class to further explore:
Research the differences in city designs: NYC, Phillie, Chicago, Boston
Examine the leisure activities: find comics, explore fashion and music, study amusement parks, look up Central Park’s significance
Transportation: first subways, compare to Europe’s progress, why weren’t cable and trolley cars everywhere
Write your research on a piece of paper to be collected.

13. HW Bring in a Chicago World’s Fair 1893 story: Invention Innovation
Designer
Food vendors
Crime
Drama

14. How did cities have to change to accommodate population growth?
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15. Hand in your “research”
Do Now
Count and list the totals: number of rooms in your house, bathrooms, bedrooms, TVs, cars, and pairs of shoes.

16. Welcome to your tenement.

17. Read the Chapter 20, Section 3 Summary
Pretend you are me… create the next slide of notes for this power point. **Be Brief** **Bullet** **No More Than 50 Words**

18. Eventually, conditions improved
City Life
Tenements/Apartments – overcrowded, dark, unsanitary
Low trash standards
No safety standards: no fire departments, no clean water
Plumbing was rare
Diseases spread quickly: cholera, thyphoid, influenza, tuberculosis
50% of babies died
Air pollution
Eventually,
conditions
improved

19. World Fair’s – What did you learn?
Clasp Locker

20. Mini quiz tomorrow

21. Quiz time

23.
$23.00
$1.00

24.
$438.00
($9 a week)
$43,924.00

25.
$0.32
$3.81

26.
$0.23
$1.40

27. 12 Day Cruise
$60.00 $

28. National Debt
$1.15 Billion
$17.5 Trillion

30. Close Reading: Underline what you don’t know/understand Highlight if it is important Write a question on the bottom

35. How have things improved?
Or did they just get worse?

36. Where is Camden, NJ?

37. Compare Contrast Small apartments Lots of jobs Mass transit Crime
Culture communities
poverty
Fire and health codes
Less illness
Medical care
Lawsuits/Regulations for change

38. What a difference a century makes
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. Fuel for a car was sold in drug stores only. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME. Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Most women washed their hair once a month, and used egg yolks for shampoo. The Five leading causes of death were: Pneumonia/influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke The American flag had 45 stars. The population of Las Vegas , Nevada , was only 30! Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at drugstores. There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE U. S. A. !

39. Write a compare and contrast paragraph about city life or immigration.