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The Challenge of the Cities

The Challenge of the Cities. Ch.8, Section 3. WARM UP 11/1/10. Define the following; steerage quarantine subsidies. Expanding Cities. Why did the nation’s urban centers grow so rapidly? Foreign immigrants settled in port cities

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The Challenge of the Cities

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  1. The Challenge of the Cities Ch.8, Section 3

  2. WARM UP 11/1/10 Define the following; steerage quarantine subsidies

  3. Expanding Cities • Why did the nation’s urban centers grow so rapidly? • Foreign immigrants settled in port cities • 1880 – 1920: 11 million American farmers left their farms and moved to the city

  4. Expanding Cities • Why? • Economic hardships on their farms • less need for labor – factory-made products and new farming equipment • boll weevil destroyed many cotton crops in Alabama and Mississippi

  5. How Cities Grew • Motorized methods • Elevated trains (1868, New York City) • Cable cars (1873, San Francisco) • Electric trolleys (1888, Richmond) • Subway trains (1897, Boston) • Automobile (1890’s; mass-produced in 1910’s)

  6. Chicago’s Home Insurance Company Building • Buildings • Elevators (1857) • Skyscrapers

  7. Urban Living Conditions • Tenements: high volume, low-cost apartment buildings • Create slums: poverty-stricken, overcrowded, neglected neighborhoods

  8. Urban Living Conditions • Problems: • Open sewers = spread disease easily • no ventilation = fires • Reforms: • 1879: New York required an outside window in every room • Dumbbell Tenement: Apartment buildings shaped like a dumbbell • Problems: rotting garbage collected at the bottom of the shaft; contaminated drinking water; poor sanitation

  9. Sewage dumped into same water that provided drinking water

  10. How the Other Half Lives • How the Other Half Lives, published by Jacob Riis • Effort to generate public support for reform of the tenement system • Used new technology to pull supporters in – flash photography • Result: New York State passed the nation’s first meaningful laws to improve tenements

  11. Results of City Growth • Middle and upper classes moved to the suburbs in the late 1800’s • Result: Gap between rich and poor widened

  12. Political Divisions • Cities are overwhelmed • Pressure coming from rapid amount of urban growth • Political Machines take over

  13. Political Divisions • An unofficial city organization designed to keep a particular party or group in power • Headed by a “boss” • Worked through the exchange of favors • Hand out jobs/contracts – In return, residents give them votes

  14. Political Machines • Graft: use of one’s job to gain profit • Ex: companies wanting a favor from the city could get it by paying money to the machine • People blamed immigrants for political machine’s success • Corrupt politicians took advantage of poorly educated immigrants • Immigrants supported them b/c they helped them find jobs and a place to live

  15. Political Machines • “Boss” Tweed • Controlled Tammany Hall – Political club that ran the NY Democratic Party • Ripped off city government • City Hall: designed to cost $250,000, it cost $13 million

  16. Thomas Nast exposes him in numerous political cartoons

  17. Warm-Ups • During the latter part of the 19th century, Americans known as nativists began to resent the foreign immigrants who were flooding the country. Some nativists even formed ant-foreigner organizations such as the American Protective Association (APA). • Why do you think these nativists resented foreigners?

  18. Ideas of Reform Ch.8, Section 4

  19. Helping the Needy • Want to fight poverty & improve unwholesome social conditions in cities • Social Gospel Movement: sought to apply the gospel of Jesus directly to society • Supported providing improved living conditions

  20. The Settlement Movement • Settlement House: kind of community center, offered social services • Hull House: opened by Jane Addams • Offered education, culture, and hope to slums

  21. Controlling Immigration & Behavior • Nativism: favoring native-born Americans over immigrants • American Protective Association • called for teaching of only American culture & English language

  22. Prohibition • Temperance Movement: organized to eliminate alcohol consumption • Prohibition Party, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Anti-Saloon League • Opposed drinking b/c it led to personal tragedies - Blue laws • Prohibition: ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

  23. Purity Crusaders • Vice: immoral or corrupt behavior • Comstock Law: prohibited sending any obscene materials through the mail • Ex: descriptions of methods to prevent unwanted pregnancy

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