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Section 2

Section 2. Moving to the City. How did industrialization of America change work on the farms?. Farm machinery Clothing. African Americans’ voyage…. 1 st - Lived in the rural South in poverty 2 nd -Moved to Southern cities to search for jobs

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Section 2

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  1. Section 2 Moving to the City

  2. How did industrialization of America change work on the farms? • Farm machinery • Clothing

  3. African Americans’ voyage… 1st - Lived in the rural South in poverty 2nd -Moved to Southern cities to search for jobs 3rd -Moved to the Northern cities which offered more industrial jobs and hoping to find less discrimination

  4. Big Cities….. • Kansas City – Cattle • Pittsburgh – iron/steel • New York/San • Francisco seaports & • immigrants

  5. tenements A building in which several families rented rooms. Later they became apartment buildings in the slums, poor, run-down urban neighborhoods. Few had hot water, 3-4 people in every room.

  6. Jacob Riis • Wrote… • How the Other Half Lives • Est. housing codes • Playgrounds • Parks

  7. Middle Class Houses with hot water, indoor toilets & electricity by 1900. Servants and leisure time. • Doctors • Lawyers • Ministers • Managers Many moved from the cities to the suburbs – residential areas outside a city

  8. The Gilded Age – late 1800s The extravagant wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that lay underneath. Associated with a thin layer of gold

  9. The Wealthy • Enormous mansions in the city • Estates in the country • Extreme luxury • Enormous parties & dinners • Some meals costing $1.3 million • today

  10. William K. and Alva Vanderbilt – Cornelius’s son

  11. Crisis in the city • Overcrowded cities created • sanitation & health • problems • Garbage & horse manure • accumulated in the street • Sewers could not handle the • flow of human waste • Filth created a breeding • ground for diseases

  12. Chicago Fire of 1871 4 square miles burned down

  13. Health & Crime Problems • 1900 babies died of whopping cough, • diphtheria, or measles before their 1st • birthday in Chicago • Tuberculosis in New York • Lead to the establishment of health clinic • Poverty lead to crime such as picking pockets and other minor crimes to survive • by orphaned and homeless children

  14. Seeking Solutions YMCA – Young Men’s Christian Assoc. YWCA - Young Women’s (recreational places to play & meet) Religious Groups aided the poor

  15. settlement houses • Located in poor neighborhoods in U.S. and • Britain • Provided health care • Playgrounds • Nurseries • Libraries • Taught English, music, arts, • crafts

  16. Hull House – ChicagoJane Addams (1889)

  17. Elisha Otis 1st safety elevator - 1852 Elevator etiquette

  18. William LeBaron Jenney Built the world’s 1st skyscraper – 10 stories in Chicago 1884 Louis Sullivan architect

  19. Woolworth Building New York: 1913 55 stories (792 feet) People called it… Cathedral of Commerce

  20. Tallest Building in the WorldBurjKhalifain the Middle East2,717 feet tall

  21. Sears TowerChicago, IL(tallest building in the U.S.)19791700 feet tall

  22. Central Park – New York City Designed by Frederick Olmsted 770 acres

  23. First Subway – Boston 1897

  24. What were streets made of??? • Sand and gravel • Wood blocks • Brick • Cobblestone • Asphalt – by product of • petroleum in 1890s

  25. Eads Bridge in St. LouisCrosses the Mississippi River

  26. Brooklyn Bridge New York City

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