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Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City

Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation , 4/e. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City. The New Urban Growth Migrations Unprecedented Geographical Mobility. America in 1900. Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City. The New Urban Growth Migrations

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Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City

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  1. Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e Chapter Eighteen: The Age of the City

  2. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • Migrations • Unprecedented Geographical Mobility America in 1900

  3. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • Migrations • Unprecedented Geographical Mobility • Southern and Eastern European Immigrants Immigration’s Contribution to Population Growth 1860-1920

  4. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • The Ethnic City • Diverse Immigrant Populations Total Immigration, 1860-1900 Sources of Immigration From Europe, 1860-1900

  5. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • The Ethnic City • Diverse Immigrant Populations • Importance of Ethnic Ties Ethnic and Class Segregation in Milwaukee, 1850-1890.

  6. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • Assimilation and Exclusion • Assimilation Encouraged Scenes from a New York City “ghetto” fish market(Library of Congress)

  7. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • Assimilation and Exclusion • Assimilation Encouraged • Immigration Restriction League “Immigration Under Attack,” 1903

  8. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The New Urban Growth • Assimilation and Exclusion • Assimilation Encouraged • Immigration Restriction League • Cheap Immigrant Labor

  9. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • The Creation of Public Space • Central Park

  10. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • The Creation of Public Space • Central Park • Daniel Burnham Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. - Daniel Burnham

  11. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • The Creation of Public Space • Central Park • Daniel Burnham • “Back Bay” Frog Pond at Boston Common, 1899(Library of Congress)

  12. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • The Search for Housing • Railroad Suburbs Streetcar Suburbs in Nineteenth Century New Orleans

  13. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • The Search for Housing • Railroad Suburbs • Jacob Riis Attic tenement house(Library of Congress)

  14. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Urban Landscape • Urban Technologies: Transportation and Construction • Skyscrapers Empire Building in New York(Library of Congress)

  15. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • Fire and Disease • Inadequate Sanitation

  16. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • Environmental Degradation • Air Pollution

  17. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • Environmental Degradation • Air Pollution • Public Health Service

  18. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • Urban Poverty, Crime, and Violence • Growing Crime Rate

  19. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • Urban Poverty, Crime, and Violence • Growing Crime Rate • Sister Carrie

  20. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • The Machine and the Boss • Function of the “Urban” Boss

  21. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Strains of Urban Life • The Machine and the Boss • Function of the “Urban” Boss • William M. Tweed “As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?” -William Tweed

  22. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Rise of Mass Consumption • Patterns of Income and Consumption • Rising Income

  23. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Rise of Mass Consumption • Patterns of Income and Consumption • Rising Income • Ready-Made Clothing

  24. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Rise of Mass Consumption • Chain Stores, Mail-Order Houses, and Department Stores • Marshall Field

  25. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • The Rise of Mass Consumption • Women as Consumers • National Consumers League

  26. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Redefining Leisure • Simon Patten

  27. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Spectator Sports • Baseball Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, PA(Library of Congress)

  28. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Spectator Sports • Baseball • Basketball Invented

  29. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Spectator Sports • Major League Baseball • Growth of College Football

  30. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Music, Theater, and Movies • Vaudeville Hammerstein Theater(Library of Congress)

  31. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Music, Theater, and Movies • Vaudeville • D.W. Griffith “History writ with Lightning” - Woodrow Wilson

  32. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Patterns of Public and Private Leisure • Coney Island Amusement Park in Ohio(Library of Congress)

  33. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • Patterns of Public and Private Leisure • Coney Island • Dime Novels

  34. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • The Technologies of Mass Communications • William Randolph Hearst “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.” - William Randolph Hearst

  35. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • Leisure in the Consumer Society • The Telephone • The Bell System

  36. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Literature and Art in Urban America • Literary Realism

  37. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Literature and Art in Urban America • Literary Realism • Ashcan School

  38. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • The Impact of Darwinism • Resistance to Evolution

  39. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • The Impact of Darwinism • Resistance to Evolution • “Pragmatism” “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” - William James

  40. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Toward Universal Schooling • Spread of Free Public Schooling

  41. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Universities and the Growth of Science and Technology • Economic Impact of Higher Education University of Minnesota, ca. 1900(Library of Congress)

  42. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Medical Science • Germ Theory Accepted

  43. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Medical Science • Germ Theory Accepted • Declining Mortality

  44. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Education for Women • Women’s Colleges “Our failures marry.” Administrator at Bryn Mawr

  45. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • High Culture in the Urban Age • Education for Women • Women’s Colleges • Emergence of Women’s Communities

  46. Chapter Eighteen:The Age of the City • America in the World: Global Migrations

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