1. Moving to the City

2. Up and Out Urban areas began to spread outward
But building began to grow up, skyscrapers

3. Draw to the City Industrial jobs
Urban lifestyle- no more early morning farm chores, late night city life was a major draw
Electricity, indoor plumbing, and telephones
Major shopping departments

4. Downfalls of the City Crime ran rampant
Early cities were stark contradictions
Stately banks, sooty factories
Green-grassed suburbs, treeless ghettos
City slums, or tenements were the worst parts of town
Extremely crowded, rat infested
7 to 8 stories high, shallow, sunless and ill-smelling air shafts led to minimal ventilation
Several families were cramed onto one floor of the tenements

6. Growth of Immigration
People from all over the world moved from their country to gain a new and improved life in democratic America
Many who came were illiterate and poor, forced to live in the ever crowded slums