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CHAPTER 18 THE AGE OF CITIES

CHAPTER 18 THE AGE OF CITIES. Population Growth 1860 31,443,321 1880 50,155,783 1900 75,994,575 1920 105,710,620. Growth of Cities 1860-1900 New York 1 to 3 million Chicago 100,000 to 1 million. 1920.

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CHAPTER 18 THE AGE OF CITIES

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  1. CHAPTER 18 THE AGE OF CITIES

  2. Population Growth 1860 31,443,321 1880 50,155,783 1900 75,994,575 1920 105,710,620

  3. Growth of Cities 1860-1900 New York 1 to 3 million Chicago 100,000 to 1 million

  4. 1920 First time a majority of Americans (51.2%) live in urban areas (2500 or more)

  5. Why Growth? *Migration movement from rural areas to the cities

  6. Young women: Larger farms & commercial farms mean less farm family and less chance for marriage Southern Blacks: Start of movement to the North

  7. What is the lure? *convenience *entertainment *culture *better paying jobs

  8. *Immigration 1860-1890 10 million 1890-1920 18 million

  9. 2nd great shift in immigration Southern and Eastern Europe They were: Uneducated Poor Unskilled

  10. Ellis Island

  11. Groups tend to settle together in the same geographic location

  12. Little Italy

  13. Mulberry St

  14. As larger groups get established, they turn their numbers into political power

  15. John Francis Fitzgerald “Honey Fitz”

  16. Reactions Deny entry to undesirables: • Convicts • Paupers • Mentally ill 50¢ Tax per person

  17. PROBLEMS IN THE CITIES

  18. Housing

  19. Lack of Transportation

  20. Congestion of the City causes: Disease

  21. Chicago Fire - 1871

  22. Greatest problem: POVERTY

  23. POLITICAL MACHINES & THE BOSS

  24. How Machines work *Help people out *Reward supporters *Power of immigrant vote *Link with wealthy *Weakness of city government

  25. Tweed Ring William Tweed

  26. Tammany Hall

  27. Thomas Nast

  28. “Let us Prey”

  29. “I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.”- Boss Tweed - November 1870

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