Aim: How did cities develop in the late 1800 s Do-now: 1. Collect homework 2. Copy down homework: Study guide for quart

1. Aim: How did cities develop in the late 1800’s?Do-now: 1. Collect homework2. Copy down homework: Study guide for quarterly exam3. Read poem and answer questions

2. Vocabulary Urbanization: the movement of population from farms to cities Tenements: small apartment in a city slum building Building Codes: laws that set standards for how buildings are constructed Settlement House: community center that offers services to the poor

3. Who populated the cities? Immigrants: took low paying jobs in factories which were also located in the cities African Americans: moved from the South to the North to improve their lives Farmers: because most of the land was divided into farms and ranches in the West, many Americans left farms to find a better life in the cities

5. Where did people live? Where people lived depended upon: Ethnicity Wealth Poor Lived in crowded slums in the city center The streets were crowded and dirty Lived in tenements Diseases raged through out the tenements

7. Middle Class Wealthy Lived outside of city slums Doctors, lawyers, managers Rows of neat houses Diseases did not spread as quickly as in the slums Lived on the outskirts of the city Lived in mansions Filled their mansions with priceless art and had lavish parties

9. How were the cities improved? Reformers wanted to change how the poor lived Building codes were passed by city governments that required plumbing and fire escapes Garbage collectors were hired to clean up the streets Professional fire companies and police forces were created

10. Settlement Houses Settlement houses were created to help the poor Hull House Opened in Chicago in 1889 by a wealthy woman named Jane Adams Provided childcare, English classes, and healthcare for poor people Movement spread too hundreds of cities

12. Activity We are going to go on a virtual field trip to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum Observe and listen to the descriptions of the tenements and answer the questions based on the tour