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Shavonte McGowan English IV 3 rd Period 4002838 City Life In The 1900’s

Shavonte McGowan English IV 3 rd Period 4002838 City Life In The 1900’s. City Life In The 1900’s. Transition Into City Life. FIGURE 1 Google.com. *America’s transition to city life began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Shavonte McGowan English IV 3 rd Period 4002838 City Life In The 1900’s

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  1. Shavonte McGowanEnglish IV3rd Period4002838City Life In The 1900’s City Life In The 1900’s

  2. Transition Into City Life FIGURE 1 Google.com *America’s transition to city life began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. *Crowded living arrangements necessitated closer attention to hygiene and sanitation. * New cultures emerged within the cities, and new diversions occupied urbanites leisure time.

  3. Over Crowded With Immigrants FIGURE 2 Google.com *Life in the city, especially New York City, back in the early 1900's was extremely over-crowded. *Immigrants were coming into the city everyday from overseas. *In such rookeries where dozens of families living in the same nest and each one was in the other one's way.

  4. Children & Society FIGURE 3 google.com * Children were took to the streets to barter and try to work for pennies. * They children even formed gangs that would fight and steal. * The kids were called street rats who gnawed the foundations of society.

  5. Health Issues FIGURE 4 Google.com *As American families flocked to cities to find work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, crowding and a lack of clean water gave rise to diseases of epidemic proportions. *Largely a product of the utter lack of sanitation, influenza, cholera (spread through contaminated drinking water), typhus, typhoid, polio and tuberculosis outbreaks raged through crowded cities. * Sanitation later , greatly improved the health conditions of people living in cities. Woods.jaqueline@district205.net

  6. Settlement Houses FIGURE 5 Google.com * Settlement houses were first built in America in the late 1890's. * The original mission behind them was to help better transition new immigrants into American society. * Settlement houses were most prevalent in large cities in the northeast and Midwest.

  7. Rapid Expansion For U.S. FIGURE 6 Image property of Chris clay drakkar.com *The Progressive Era was a period of rapid expansion for the United States. *The institution of shorter work weeks meant that American workers were gaining more free time and needed ways to spend it. * The United States’ entertainment and leisure market started to explode.

  8. Popularity Of Motion Pictures FIGURE 7 Google.com * Outdoor activities were popular for those that wanted to leave the inner city for a while. * Other popular shows included Wild West shows, circuses, and motion pictures. *The increasing popularity of motion pictures gave birth to the Nickelodeon theatres and then to larger theaters.

  9. Entertainment FIGURE 8 Google.com * The opening of Coney Island Amusement Park in 1897 marked the beginning of a new era in amusement and entertainment. * These parks also provided an ideal venue to showcase the latest technological innovations. * Various spectator sporting events, including boxing, horse racing, baseball, basketball, and football, also gained popularity during this period.

  10. Skyscrapers FIGURE 9 Google.com *Believe it or not, Chicago was once the home of the tallest and greatest number of skyscrapers. *They were merely 10-20 stories high and made possible by Henry Bessemer and George Fuller. * Architects took advantage of the Chicago steel industry’s technological innovations.

  11. Famous Buildings Of 1900 FIGURE 10 Google.com * Skyscrapers were designed to resemble centuries of the past including Classical, Gothic, and Renaissance. * Skyscrapers also had another element of appeal. * Skyscrapers were a true marvel, except if you lived or worked on the top floor.

  12. New York City Sky Scrapper FIGURE 11 Google.com *The New York World Building stood until 1955 at 18 stories. *This was one of the first “skyscrapers” that ranged from 10-20 stories). Skyscrapers were a symbol of America’s rising social, global, and industrial power. * The skyscraper solved geographical and social issues that were rising in the early 1900’s

  13. People In The City Of 1900’s FIGURE 12 Google.com *According to U.S. Census, Towards the end of the 19th century, Americans primarily lived in rural communities. *About 35% of the population lived in urban areas. * By 1920, It became a majority urban nation (at 51%). A lot of this urban growth came from immigrants coming from European nations.

  14. Adventurers To The City Life FIGURE 13 Google.com *It was a likely place for newcomers to city life to start out. * It was not uncommon to find neighborhoods where immigrants from the same country would gravitate. * Places like New York City or Chinatown in San Francisco were among the many sub-communities that adventurers populations lived.

  15. More Immigrants FIGURE 14 Google.com * Historians use the words "push" and "pull" when they studied migration. * Something "pushes" migrants away from their original homes. Something "pulls" them to their new home. * It wasn’t easy for them to decide to leave home, but people must decide if what they gain is worth what they must give up.

  16. Deciding Where To Go FIGURE 15 Google.com * Most migrants choose a place where they know they can find work. * They also look for a place where they can afford to live. * Even when life was hard, people loved their homelands. It was hard to make the decision to leave for America.

  17. Issues Upon The Irish And The Indians FIGURE 16 Google.com *Most scientists believe that the first people migrated to Pennsylvania thousands of years ago. * Indians greeted the first Europeans. Dutch and Swedish settlers came to trade with the Indians. They came to make money. Soon the Swedish were farming. *Then the Scots Irish came. They were Presbyterians who were pushed out of Ireland because of their religion.

  18. The Irish FIGURE 17 Google.com *About half of the new immigrants were Catholics from Ireland. *A terrible plant disease had killed Ireland's main food crop, potatoes. *They became penniless and didn't have many job skills, so they decided to turn to a city life.

  19. More Germans, Welsh, and English FIGURE 18 Google.com *Things weren't going well in Germany, so revolted and tried to join the states together into one free nation, this didn’t go so well , so they once again decided to turn to the city life. *Some came with enough money to buy farms. * Others had skills needed by glass and other factories.

  20. The Underground Railroad FIGURE 19 Google.com *During the 1900’s some brave souls became involved in a secret migration. * Many African Americans wanted to escape from slavery in the South. * Free black and white abolitionists helped them on the Underground Railroad.

  21. Theodore Roosevelt & the protection of the Reclamation Act FIGURE 20 Google.com *President Theodore Roosevelt secures passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act, an unprecedented law authorizing federal construction of dams and reservoirs in the West funded by public land sales. * This act was designed to promote settlement (rather than industry) by limiting tracts within the water project areas to 160 acres. * After all this law instituted a massive federally-funded public works program operating under bureaucratic control that measures its success by the number of dams built and the millions of acres of water impounded.

  22. Earthquake Hits!!! FIGURE 21 Google.com * In the 1900’s The most devastating earthquake had hit. * It had set off fires that burned out eight square miles in the city, leaving 250,000 homeless. * This earthquake made dramatic changes on life in the city.

  23. 1st Set of Five Work Cited • Stacks, Marcy S. before Harlem: The black experience in New York City before World War I (politics and culture in Modern America).New York: University of Pennsylvania Press (September 14, 2006) • Wright- Gridley, Jodi. Galveston: A city on stilts. Chicago: Jennifer Marines, 1989. • Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times. New York: Oxford University Press, USA (May 11, 2000). • Kyvig, David E. Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.Mchenry, USA: Films Media Group, 1990. • Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s. Chicago: TJ. Hudson,1993.

  24. 2nd Set Of Five Work Cited • Ernest, Robert. Immigrant Life in New York City. Houston: Films Media Group, 1950. • Lewis, Philippa. Forgotten London: A Picture of Life in the 1920’s. Bloomington, USA, 1975. • Plunz, Richard. A history of housing in New York City. New York: McHenry, USA, 1975. • Simon, Bryant. Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the fate of urban America. Colorado Springs, USA: Focus on the family, 1996. • Joyce, James, and Stephen Watt. Dubliners. New York: Washington Square Press, 1998.

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