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1 By: Susan M. Pojer and Lynne Pierce
Urbanization and Politics In The Gilded Age By: Susan M. Pojer and Lynne Pierce

2 Characteristics of Urbanization During the Gilded Age
Megalopolis. Mass Transit. Pronounced class distinctions -suburbs Squalid living conditions for many. Political machines. Ethnic neighborhoods.

3 Apartment Building - Chicago

4 Railway Exchange

5 Flatiron Building NYC – 1902

6 Western Union Bldg, NYC Manhattan Life Insurance Bldg., NYC

7 Singer Building - NYC - Woolworth Building

8 “Dumbbell“ Tenement

9 Tenement Slum Living

10 Inside the Tenements

11 Street Children

12 Ellis Island The “New Immigrants”
Southern & Eastern Europe – Italians, Greeks, Poles, Russians – and Asians

13 Ellis Island

14 Waiting for Entry

15 The Test You Can’t Afford To Fail

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18 So Far So Near, yet ….

19 The New Colossus …… Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, …… her name - Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command ………. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, 1883

20 Struggling Immigrant Families

21 Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”

22 St. Patrick’s Cathedral

23 Hester Street – Jewish Section

24 Pell St. - Chinatown,NYC Chinese laborers

25 The “Chinese Question”
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

26 ”Black & Tan” Saloon

27 1890s ”Morgue” – Basement Saloon

28 Bandits’ Roost Mullen’s Alley Gang

29 Urban Growth:

30 Anti-Immigrant Reaction
American Protective Association Immigration Restrictive Acts (quotas)

31 Political Bosses Old and New
Richard Daly – Chicago 1960s 19th Century boss

32 President Ulysses S. Grant 1868-1876

33 Political Bosses and Machines
Tammany Hall - NYC William Tweed Thomas Nast

34 Nast attacks Tweed

35 Other Nast Cartoons Nast self portrait

36 1881: Garfield Assassinated!
Charles Guiteau

37 Chester A. Arthur: The Fox in the Chicken Coop?

38 Pendleton Act (1883) Civil Service Act.
Civil service jobs now awarded on basis of merit – test required or college education End of spoils system

39 1884 Presidential Election
Grover Cleveland James Blaine * (DEM) (REP)

40 A Dirty Campaign Ma, Ma…where’s my pa? He’s going to the White House, ha… ha… ha…!

41 Cleveland takes on the bosses

42 1888 Presidential Election
Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison (DEM) * (REP)

43 Disposing of the Surplus

44 1892 Presidential Election
Only President to serve split terms Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison again! * (DEM) (REP)

45 Changing Culture John Dewey – learning by doing Frederick Law Olmstead
Mark Twain

46 Newspapers & Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer Yellow Kid

47 City Transportation

48 Shopping F.W. Woolworth Chain store Marshall-Fields, 1st dept. store
1st grocery store Sears,Roebuck

49 Photography George Eastman

50 Entertainment P.T. Barnum & Col. Tom Thumb Vaudeville flyer

51 Baseball

52 Football Walter Camp Father of Am Football

53 Basketball

54 Boxing - Bare Knuckles to Gloves
Jim Jeffries v. Jack Johnson John L Sullivan

55 The Healthy Life Gym suit 1912

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