1. American History Chapter 15-2 Urban Life

2. Cities Change Taller buildings became practical: – Needed more space. – Steel frames. – Elisha Otis: Invented the elevator.

4. Where Did the Green Go? Landscape architects were hired. – Frederick Olmsted: Designed city parks. – Designed New York’s Central Park.

5. Pretty, Isn’t it?

6. Social Classes Wealthy: 1870s – 1890s, The Gilded Age. – Many got rich through business & industry. Middle Class: Corporations created good paying new jobs. – Accountants, clerks, managers, salespeople, etc. – Needed educated workers. – Professionalization became a process: Standardized skills & knowledge. Working Class: Unskilled, lowly paid workers. – Lived in tenements, poorly built apartment buildings.

7. Helping the Poor Settlement houses: – Provided job-training, English courses, & social activities. Hull House: A settlement house in Chicago. – Started by Jane Addams. – Lillian Wald founded Henry St. Settlement in NYC. Social Gospel: Rel. faith expressed thru good works. Wald Addams