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THE RISE OF THE URBAN SOCIETY

THE RISE OF THE URBAN SOCIETY. Urbanization Immigration Segregation Reform Thought. FOUR THEMES OF GILDED AGE. 1) Industrialization (chapter 18) 2) Urbanization 3) Immigration 4) Modernization (Progress & Order). Urbanization. Inventions: Light bulb, electricity, camera,

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THE RISE OF THE URBAN SOCIETY

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  1. THE RISE OF THE URBAN SOCIETY Urbanization Immigration Segregation Reform Thought

  2. FOUR THEMES OF GILDED AGE • 1) Industrialization (chapter 18) • 2) Urbanization • 3) Immigration • 4) Modernization (Progress & Order)

  3. Urbanization • Inventions: Light bulb, electricity, camera, • Phonograph, streetcar, typewriter, cash reg, • 220,000 patents in 1890s, telephone, movies • Consumerism: Dept store, chain store, • Mail order. More time & money. • City Growth: 1920 more than ½ pop city, • Skyscrapers, streetcar, suburbs • Tenements: crowded apartments • Sanitation: manure, sewage, pollution, • Bad water, no building codes, no planning.

  4. Kodak and Edison

  5. Boston 1890

  6. Immigration • 1877-1890: West & North Europeans • 1890-1910: South & East Europeans • More Catholics and Jews • 1877-1890: 6.3 million immigrants • 4/5 of Chicago & NY foreign born • Immigrant household • Ethnic organizations • Ethnic tension

  7. New York Tenement

  8. German immigrants in S. Dakota

  9. URBAN POLITICAL MACHINES • The spoil system • The City Boss • NY: Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall • Corruption, but some benefits for poor • (City leaders: urban improvement)

  10. Boss Tweed: Tammany Hall

  11. SOCIAL CHANGES • Work Culture: white collar, efficiency • Leisure: fairs, dance halls, vaudeville, • Bicycles, baseball, college football, boxing • Family: separate spheres, men work, • suburbs, childhood extended, • Women: Lady’s Home Journal, 12% work, • Nurture virtue, supervise children, more rights • Education: mandatory school, literacy up, • Less religious, more job preparation • College:150, woman’s 40%, professional

  12. African American Struggle • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): 14th Amend, • “Separate but equal” • Booker T. Washington: Tuskegee Inst., • Up From Slavery, work hard, learn a trade, own property, Atlantic Compromise • W.E.B. Du Bois: Ph.D in sociology, The • Souls of Black Folk, attacks Washington’s • Compromising philosophy, he says • Fight for legal rights now, go to college

  13. Booker T. Washington

  14. W. E. B. Du Bois

  15. REFORM THOUGHT • Social Gospel: church must play active • Role in helping poor, “what w/Jesus do?” • (Mugwumps): public virtue, free markets • W.G. Sumner: Social Darwinism, laissez • Fair enforces Protestant virtues • Henry George: “single tax” on property • Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward, • Material inequality root of all evil • Settlement Houses: Jane Addams, Hull • House, helped inner city, social science

  16. Jane Addams: Hull House

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