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Objective 5.01

Objective 5.01. Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life. Urban Issues….Housing.

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Objective 5.01

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  1. Objective 5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.

  2. Urban Issues….Housing • Settlement Houses: concerned w/ urban poverty. Those connected to universities settled students in slum areas to live and work alongside local people. Est. for edu., savings, sports, and arts. • Jane Addams: (1860-1935) founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement and first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

  3. Urban Issues….Housing • Dumbbell Tenements: 1879 law required every inhabitable room have a window. Called "dumbbell tenements" after the shape of the building footprint. Built in great # to accommodate waves of immigrating Europeans. • Sweatshops: term describing a manufacturing facility, usu. garments, where working conditions are poor and workers are paid little.

  4. Urban Issues….Transportation • Elevator: transport device used to move goods or people vertically. • Electric Trolleys: rail vehicle, lighter than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within a city. Powered by electrical line above the trolley.

  5. The Rise of Ethnic Neighborhoods • Jacob Riis: muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer. Used photographic and journalistic talents to help less fortunate in NYC. One of 1st photographers to use flash. • Ellis Island: at mouth of Hudson River in NY Harbor, at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the U.S. from Jan. 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954.

  6. Chinese Exclusion Act: 1st significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history. U.S. fed. law passed on May 6, 1882. Allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration. Lasted over 60 years. Culture Shock: feeling of anxiety when operating within a different society. Cultural Pluralism: when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities. Urbanization: redistribution of populations from the country to cities. Nativism: opposition to immigration or dislike of foreigners. Melting Pot: metaphor for way in which homogeneous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures, races and religions) are combined so as to develop a multi-ethnic society. The Rise of Ethnic Neighborhoods

  7. New Forms of Leisure • Telephone: device which is used to transmit and receive sound (usu. speech). • Alexander Graham Bell: most often associated with the invention of the telephone. • Thomas Edison: an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.

  8. New Forms of Leisure • Typewriter: device w/ a set of "keys" that cause characters to be printed on a document, usu. paper. • Amusement Parks: collection of rides and entertainment attractions assembled for purpose of entertaining large groups of people.

  9. New Forms of Leisure • Spectator Sports: ex: basketball, baseball, football, soccer, hockey. (not hunting) • Frederick Olmsted: an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC. (also the Biltmore Estate)

  10. Of what is this a picture?How can you tell?Why is there only women in the pic?

  11. Of what is this a picture?How is the picture affected by technology?

  12. What do you think the pic is depicting?Would you walk through the alley?Why do you think Riis took this photo?

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