chapter 20-2 modern urban growth
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What caused the rapid growth of cities in the late 1800s?
Urbanization (farmers)
Immigrants
African Americans Migrate North
Name Population
1 London, United Kingdom 6,480,000
2 New York, United States 4,242,000
3 Paris, France 3,330,000
4 Berlin, Germany 2,707,000
5 Chicago, United States 1,717,000
6 Vienna, Austria 1,698,000
7 Tokyo, Japan 1,497,000
8 St. Petersburg, Russia 1,439,000
9 Manchester, United Kingdom 1,435,000
10 Philadelphia, United States 1,418,000
10 Most Populated Cities in the World: 1900
Where did the different classes of people live in cities?
Poor: tenement slums, center of the cityMiddle Class: homes in cleaner neighborhoods, away from “downtown”
Wealthy: mansions in exclusive neighborhoods with gates, or walls
Pattern of Settlement In Cities:
Factories, Businesses, Poor Tenement Slum
(downtown)
Middle Class Homes
Some Small Business
Wealthy Class Homes
Wealthy Class Homes
Buffalo 1901
Amherst/UB
“Kaisertown” (German)
“Polonia” (Polish)
“West Side” (Italian)
Problems in the cities:
Unsafe tenement buildings
Garbage removal problem
Factory pollution
Rapid increase in crime
Reform Movements By 1880s reformers were forcing city governments to:
Pass building codes
Hire sanitation workers
Pass zoning laws
Set up police & fire departments
Jane Addams & Hull House By late 1800s people began to form Settlement Houses (community centers that offered:
Education in American culture & History
English Language Classes
Health care instruction
Recreation Activities For the Young (sports, singing, theater…)
Social Gospel Movement Based on supplying Christian values & ethics to address problems in society:•Led by Protestant ministers
•Child labor reform/laws
•Conditions in slums/poverty
•Alcohol abuse
•Rising crime rate
•Bad hygiene, medical care
Jacob Riis Photographs
Jacob Riis Photographshttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm
http://www.atschool.org/materials/primary/riis.htm
Updated 12/8/10
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/photography/images/riisphotos/slideshow1.html
•Documented conditions in cities.
•Wrote the book How the Other Half Lives, illustrated with his photos.
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