1. Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects US History Spiconardi

2. URBANIZATION UrbanizationUrbanization  process by which more of a nations population becomes concentrated in cities Why? –Factories built in the cities  –Job opportunities  –Immigrants seek jobs & settle in cities  –Rural farmers come to the cities

3. Urbanization: Negative Effects

4. Housing –Not enough affordable housing to keep up with the population –Many forced into homelessness or tenements TenementsTenements  inner-city multi unit dwellings (4-6 stories high) –Usually divided and re-divided. –http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_v irtual.htmlhttp://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_v irtual.html

5. Tenements

7. What are some problems that the tenement living conditions caused? Why would people live in such conditions?

8. Urbanization: Negative Effects Crime –Due to poverty crime increases in the urban centers of America 1881: 25 murders per 1 million people 1898: 107 murders per 1 million people Health –Tuberculosis –Cholera –Typhoid –Diphtheria

9. Urbanization: Negative Effects Political Machines –Tammany Hall In return for votes, bosses provided jobs, built parks, distributed food & clothing to the needy, but… UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY “When you’ve voted ‘em with their whiskers on, you take ‘em to a barber and scrape off the chin fringe. Then you voted ‘em again…Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote ‘em a third time with the mustache…Then clean off the mustache and vote ‘em plain face. That makes every one of ‘em for four votes.”