1. Immigrant Experiences
Share what you put for each group and add to your own chart

2. Urban Game
Follow instructions and use the key provided!

3. Prompt #5
List 2-3 positive and 2-3 negative effects you noticed or predict to occur in your town from the Urban Game?
Consider when we added: services (schools, stores, pubs, churches, etc.), factories, tenements, roads, railroads, etc.

4. Urbanization
Notes

5. Growing Cities Immigrants & people from rural areas move in
Factory jobs increase
New machines – higher production
African Americans move north to escape racism

6. Chicago 1871
Chicago 1916

7. How Cities Grew Moved to suburbs—subways and public transportation
Steel  skyscrapers
Invention of the elevator
Specialized areas in cities (i.e., banking, retail)

8. Tenements/Slums

9. Urban Living Conditions
Tenements—low-cost housing; dirty, cramped
Dumbbell tenement
Conditions: no trees, air is dark, open sewers
Danger of fire
Chicago Fire of 1871

10. “5 cents a spot”—crowded apartment in New York City

12. Urban Living Conditions (cont.)
Dirty air & space  diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, etc.)
Spread in summer
Fresh air havens on waterfront
Bad drinking water  typhoid and cholera
Added chlorine & replaced outhouses

14. Results of City Growth
Nativism
Political Machines

15. Nativism: favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants
Why was this a result of city growth?

16. Why were these a result of city growth and immigration?
Political Machines:
unofficial city organizations designed to keep a certain group in power and usually had a single powerful “boss”
Why were these a result of city growth and immigration?

17. Why would it be called this?
The Gilded Age
Why would it be called this?

18. A thin layer of “gold” covering the poverty and corruption of the time

19. Draw a picture that represents 5 ideas of city growth during the IR.
Exit Pass
Draw a picture that represents 5 ideas of city growth during the IR.
Must include the following in your picture: urbanization effects, nativism, and political machines

20. Prompt #7
List 5 effects that came from industrialization, immigration, and urbanization.

21. Question Review
In your group, come up with 5 good questions you might see on a test
Put the answer on the back of the sticky note
Categories (technologies, monopolists, working conditions, unions/strikes, immigration, urbanization)
CHECK IN YOUR QUESTIONS

22. Political Machines
Write a skit depicting how a political machine operated during the Industrial Revolution. Reference pg. 308 if needed.

23. Shared Drawings
Draw an image to represent the corruption and poverty of the Gilded Age.