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The Challenges of Urbanization

The Challenges of Urbanization. Housing, Sanitation, Transportation, Water, Crime, Fire. Warm up:. Set up paper for 2-column notes Answer the warm up question on your notes Why would people move from the country and working on farms to the cities and working in factories?.

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The Challenges of Urbanization

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  1. The Challenges of Urbanization Housing, Sanitation, Transportation, Water, Crime, Fire

  2. Warm up: Set up paper for 2-column notes Answer the warm up question on your notes Why would people move from the country and working on farms to the cities and working in factories?

  3. Content Objective I will be able to analyze photos and write a description of urban life.

  4. Vocabulary • Urbanization: movement of population from rural (country) to cities (urban) • Migration: movement inside a place • Immigrant: A person who moves in to a place • Industrialization: process of going from hand made to factory made products

  5. Immigrant Populations • Rapid urbanizationoccurred in the late 19th century in the Northeast and Midwest. Immigrants settled in cities because of the available jobs and affordable housing. By 1910, immigrantsmade up more than half the population of 18 major American cities

  6. Migration from Country to City • Rapid improvements in farm technology (tractors, reapers, steel plows) made farming more efficient and requiredless labor. • Many rural people left for cities to find work – including almost a quarter of a million African Americans. Discrimination and segregation were often the reality for African Americans who migrated north

  7. Urban Problems • Problems in American cities in the late 19th & early 20th centuries included: • Housing: Overcrowded tenements were un-healthy places to live. • Sanitation: Garbage often was not collected and polluted the air. Famous photographer Jacob Riis captured the struggle of living in crowded tenements

  8. Transportation:Cities struggled to provide adequate transit systems. • Water: Without safe drinking water cholera and typhoid fever were common • Crime: As populations increased thieves flourished. • Fire: Limited water, wooden structures, and the use of candles led to many major urban fires. Harper’s Weekly image of Chicagoans fleeing the fire over the Randolph Street bridge in 1871 Chicago 1871 and San Francisco 1906 were two major fires.

  9. POSERS • People • Who is in the picture? • Objects • What can you see in the picture? • Setting • Where are they? • Engagement • What are they doing? • Relationship • How are the people related? How are they connected? • Summary • Summarize what is in the picture

  10. Photographer Jacob Riis Captured Images of the City

  11. POSERS • P • O • S • E • R • S • Some children and a couple of adults • Laundry, pail and tub, wooden cart • Outside of apartment building • Just standing • Could be family • People appear not very clean and buildings are very run down, look poor.

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  14. Exit ticket Based on what you saw in the pictures, write a one paragraph analyses of life for people in the early industrial cities.

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