Age of Cities

1. Urban Populations Boom for 2 reasons 1.Immigration ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2.In-Migration ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________: small apartments in a city slum building • Jobs Drew People to the Cities: • - Meatpacking plants • - ________________ • - Garment factories • - Salesclerks • - Waiters • - Barbers • - Bank tellers • - ________________ • Groups Moving to Cities: • Immigrants – better lives & work • Farmers – _________________ • African Americans – better lives & _____________for work Age of Cities • ____________ • - Poor families were rooted in the city’s ___________ (old sections) • - Streets jammed with people, horses, pushcarts, garbage • - People bought out buildings & turned them into factories to maintain cheap _______ • - Limited space called for ____________ • _________________ • - Beyond the slums, just surrounding the epicenter (_____________) • - Doctors, lawyers, business managers, skilled machinists, office workers • - Rows of __________ houses with trees • Still disease spreads, but __________________ • Leisure activities: sense of community & purpose: • + Clubs, choirs, bowling teams, charities • “Bring together many people who are striving upward, trying to uplift themselves” • _________________ • - _______________of the city, far ends • - Brick walls & iron gates • - Mansions on 5th Avenue (NY) • - Lakefront property (Chicago) • - Modeled lives after ______________royalty: artwork, parties, cigarettes rolled in $100 bills