ARE YOU AS SMART AS

AN IMMIGRANT

???

Urban Populations Boom for 2 reasons 1.immigration2.In-Migration

*Be able to explain each*

Age of Cities

Hmm… What could the

difference be here?

Jobs drew people to cities – Meatpacking plants– Steel mills– Garment factories– Salesclerks– Waiters– Barbers– Bank tellers– Secretaries

Groups Moving to Cities• Immigrants – better lives/ work• Farmers – stable jobs• African Americans – better lives/

opportunities for work

Patterns of City SettlementCities grew outward from downtown sections

POOR

MIDDLE CLASS

RICH

THINK

Poor– Poor families were rooted in the city’s center (old

sections)– Streets jammed with people, horses, pushcarts, garbage– People bought out buildings & turned them into factories

to maintain cheap rent– Limited space called for tenements

Tenements: small apartments in a city slum building

–6 or 7 stories high, divided into small apartments–No windows, heat or indoor bathrooms–10 people to a room per usual–Typhoid & cholera spread–Tuberculosis (lung disease) biggest killer » thousands die per year (babies)

Middle Class– Beyond the slums, just surrounding the epicenter

(middle)– Doctors, lawyers, business managers, skilled machinists,

office workers– Rows of neat houses with trees– Still disease spreads, but less frequently

– Leisure activities: sense of community & purpose• Clubs, choirs, bowling teams, charities• “Bring together many people who are striving upward,

trying to uplift themselves”

Middle Class

Rich

– Outskirts of the city, far ends– Brick walls & iron gates– Mansions on 5th Avenue (NY)– Lakefront property (Chicago)– Modeled lives after European

royalty: artwork, parties, cigarettes rolled in $100 bills

Things to Remember:

1. We don’t see each other Friday 2. Your scrapbooks are due Monday

- follow directions & rubric {out of 50pts}3. Our FIRST CULTURAL EXPERIENCE is next Friday!!!

- more information to come on Monday…4. Your unit test will be next Thursday

*You now have your 4th “chunk”… all key terms are due test day – no HW passes*