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AMERICAN URBANIZATIONGlobal Migration and Urban Explosion
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Urbanization• Between 1870 and 1900, eleven million people moved
into America’s cities• Why?
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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma Lazarus, a young Jewish woman wrote in 1883:
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Global migration• Two distinct waves of European immigration
• Before 1880—from northern and western Europe
• After 1880—from southern and eastern Europe• depression in southern Italy, persecution of Jews in eastern Europe, avoidance of Russian conscription
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Ellis Island, immigration facility, New York Harbor
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Ellis Island
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Immigrants at Ellis Island
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Women
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Examination Room
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Electric Street Car• Development of
electric street car in 1880s led to urban congestion and suburban sprawl
• Social segregation—those who could afford, moved to outskirts, poorest occupied city center
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Structural Steel• Structural Steel changed the urban environment with bridges and sky-scrapers
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Brooklyn Bridge
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‘Skyscraper’
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Public works
• Street paving, trolley tracks, underground subway lines
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Trolley, North First in San Jose
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Sewers and Water mains• Flush toilet, bathtubs, and lavatories in new apartments—because of improvements in city sewers and water mains.
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Central Park New York
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“Chicago School”• Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demanded a new city to be
built• Soaring population descended on Chicago• “Chicago School” a small group of professional architects
designing the new, tall, buildings
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Connecticut Mill
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Chicago home
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Jacob Riis• How the Other Half Lives, documented the poverty, crowding and disease of New York City
• Had America become a plutocracy? The wealthiest 1% owned more than half of the real and personal property in the country.
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Tenement living
• The poor did not share equally in the advantages of city life.
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America’s Need for Cheap Labor
• Between 1870 and 1900 industrialists drew on rural and migrant people for labor force• Common laborers• Skilled craftsmen• Mechanization replaced workers with machines• Textile mills usually employed young women• New classes of managers, middle management• Clerical workers• Retail sales
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Great Railroad Strike 1877
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Knights of Labor• First mass organization of America’s working class
• Organized regardless of skill, sex, race, or nationality, became the dominate force in labor during the 1880s
• Knights of Labor advocated a workers’ democracy that embraced public ownership of railroads, an income tax, equal pay for women workers, and the abolition of child labor.
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AFL rival to Knights of Labor• American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers
• His plan was to organize skilled workers and to use strikes to gain immediate objectives—higher pay and better working conditions
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12-Hour Day• Since 1840, labor had sought to end the industry
standard12-hour work day, • Supporters set May 1,1886 as the date for a nationwide
general strike in support of eight-hour day• All factions of labor movement participated in Chicago on
May Day, ‘largest demonstration to date’• 45,000 workers paraded peaceful down Michigan Ave in
support of eight hour work day
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Haymarket
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Haymarket Riot• The riot killed the 8-hr workday movement
• Ruined the Knights of Labor
• Skilled workers turned to the AFL
• Unskilled workers were left out
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Calls for Immigration Restriction• Many Americans saw newcomers as uneducated,
backward, uncouth • “blue-bloods” made unlikely alliance with organized labor
to restrict immigration• Ethnic competition between older immigrants
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Anti-immigrant attitudes
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Bosses• William Marcy Tweed or “Boss Tweed” of New York
• Bribery and Graft to control New York politics
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Thomas Nast cartoon
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Tammany Hall
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Tammany Hall
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Lincoln Steffens
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At Home and At Play
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“Cult of Domesticity”
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Household chores
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Washing clothes
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Idealized image
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Domestic servants
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Coney Island
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World’s Columbian Exposition 1893
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Ferris Wheel
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“White City”
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Displays of America’s Industries
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Agriculture Products at the Fair
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