Urbanization

1. Urbanization I.Rise of the City II. The New Immigrants III. City Life

2. Key Terms • “New” Immigrants • Jacob Riis • Dumb-bell Tenements • Theory of the Leisure Class • Conspicuous Consumption • Ward Bosses

3. I. Rise of the City • Urban Growth • Railroads and Industrialization • Urban Issues

4. Urban Population Growth

5. Spread of Cities in the U.S.

6. Expansion of Chicago into a Megalopolis, 1865-1902

7. Rapid Urban Growth

8. Early View of the Illinois Central Railroad

9. Chicago Railroad Terminal

10. Industrialization

11. U. S. Urban Growth, 1880-1900

12. Urban Issues • Where were the new city dwellers coming from? • What were conditions inside cities? 3. What was the role of government?

13. II. The “New” Immigrants • New Sources of Immigration • A Conspicuous Population

14. Rise of “New” Immigrants

15. Map of Immigrant Settlement in 1910

16. Jane Addams Describes Chicago: “Between Halstead Street and the river live about ten thousand Italians—Neapolitans, Sicilians, and Calabrians, with an occasional Lombard or Venetian. To the south on Twelfth Street are many Germans, and side streets are given almost entirely over to Polish and Russian Jews. Still farther south, these Jewish colonies merge into a huge bohemian colony, so vast that the Chicago ranks as the third Bohemian city in the world.”

17. Lower East Side, New York City, 1900

18. III. City Life • The Old Cities • New Slums • Conspicuous Consumption • City Government

19. View of an Old City East View of Philadelphia and Part of Camden, New Jersey, ca. 1836

20. Traffic in Philadelphia, 1897

21. 1879 Award Winning Dumb-bell Tenements

23. New York Tenement District, 1888

24. Jacob Riis, New York Journalist and Reformer

27. Five Cent Boarding House, New York City, 1889

28. Home of an Italian Rag Picker, 1888

29. Women’s Lodging Room in New York Shelter

30. New York City Officials Inspect a basement Living Room, 1900

31. William Dean Howlles Describes Being Close to a Tenement in 1896: “To be in it, and not have the distance, is to inhale the stenches of the neglected street, and to catch the yet fouler and dreadful poverty-smell which breaths from the open doorways . . . . It is to see the work-worn look of mothers, the squalor of the babes, the haggish ugliness of the old women, the slovenly frowziness of the young girls.”

32. Thostein Veblen, Author of Theory of the Leisure Class

33. J. P. Morgan’s 1600 ton steam yacht

34. The Rising Sun, Larry Ellison’s 453 foot yacht

42. Hester Street, New York City, 1903 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1906

43. Fifth Avenue, New York, 1900

44. Mrs. Astor’s House, Fifth Avenue, New York

45. The ballroom in the Astor House could accommodate 1200

46. The Astors’ Summer Cottage in New Port, RI The family invested two million dollars in the renovations. Caroline Astor presided over countless social activities during the eight weeks each year she visited Beechwood

48. The Breakers

50. Dinning Room at the Breakers