1. UNIT #3 – URBANIZATION LESSON #3 - Urban Growth (118-121)

2. New Plan for Composition Book:
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What were some of the problems associated with the fast growth of cities?
What were the conditions of a home for a poor person in the city?
NEW VOCABULARY Urban Skyscraper Tenement Political machine Graft

3. Italian Immigrants
Why are we concerned with the Italian immigration at the end of the 1800s?
Why did most Italian immigrants become poor factory workers?

4. Problems of Urbanization
Read p. 120
List the five problems associated with city living and urban growth.

5. The “political machine”
Read p
Define the term “political machine.”
What did the immigrant gain from this system?
Why did the “political boss” help immigrants and the poor?

6. City Living…
What can you tell about cities in the late 1800s from these pictures?
(put your answer here)

7. What was different about Upper and Middle class?

8. Tenement Living Describe a “tenement.”
What would make it uncomfortable, and even unsafe?

9. The Extreme Poor in America
How was life for the poorest Americans different than the Middle class?