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Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects

Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects. US History Spiconardi. URBANIZATION. Urbanization process by which more of a nations population becomes concentrated in cities Why? Factories built in the cities  Job opportunities  Immigrants seek jobs & settle in cities 

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Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects

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  1. Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects US History Spiconardi

  2. URBANIZATION • Urbanizationprocess by which more of a nations population becomes concentrated in cities • Why? • Factories built in the cities  • Job opportunities  • Immigrants seek jobs & settle in cities  • Rural farmers come to the cities

  3. Urbanization: Negative Effects

  4. Urbanization: Negative Effects • Housing • Not enough affordable housing to keep up with the population • Many forced into homelessness or tenements • Tenementsinner-city multi unit dwellings (4-6 stories high) • Usually divided and re-divided. • http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html

  5. Tenements

  6. Tenements

  7. Tenements • What are some problems that the tenement living conditions caused? • Why would people live in such conditions?

  8. Crime Due to poverty crime increases in the urban centers of America 1881: 25 murders per 1 million people 1898: 107 murders per 1 million people Health Tuberculosis Cholera Typhoid Diphtheria Urbanization: Negative Effects

  9. Urbanization: Negative Effects • Political Machines • Tammany Hall • In return for votes, bosses provided jobs, built parks, distributed food & clothing to the needy, but… • UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY • “When you’ve voted ‘em with their whiskers on, you take ‘em to a barber and scrape off the chin fringe. Then you voted ‘em again…Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote ‘em a third time with the mustache…Then clean off the mustache and vote ‘em plain face. That makes every one of ‘em for four votes.”

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