1. Unit 2 Day 3 Notes Life in the Big City
Warm Up
Answer the following question as if you were a nativist.
Why should America not let immigrants into the country
MAKE SURE TO QUOTE FROM THE HOMEWORK

2. The move to cities Agrarian = based on agriculture.
Family worked hard on farm to take care of their own needs
Whatever was left over could be stored or sold
More work oriented lifestyle
Urban = Based on Industry and City life
Factories powered by steam, coal could be placed anywhere
Towns such as Ny, Chicago St Louis rise due to proximity to railroads
Factories mean – Lots of Jobs
People who wanted quieter lives moved to the suburbs, poor, immigrants moved to cities

3. 230-231 red text Sister Carrie
Problems with Cities
red text Sister Carrie
Pg 345 Blue text
Social Problems
High Crime Rate ( 7 murders per every 100,000, 1000, prost, 7,000 coke addicts, gang fights
Tenement Housing – Poor people packed into apartments to share rent, Housing granted by race. Naturals got first choice, then at the bottom would be Irish and African Americans
Political Corruption
Political Machines = Organizations that controls elections by awarding jobs and doing favors for the poor
Tammany Hall – New York City. Pg 345 George Washington Plunkitt
Nothing wrong with initial things, might call him a hero
Is there anything wrong with what mr.Plunkitt did