110 likes | 205 Views
ARE YOU AS SMART AS AN IMMIGRANT???. Age of Cities. Urban Populations Boom for 2 reasons 1.immigration 2.In-Migration *Be able to explain each*. Hmm… What could the difference be here?. Jobs drew people to cities . Meatpacking plants Steel mills Garment factories Salesclerks Waiters
E N D
Age of Cities Urban Populations Boom for 2 reasons 1.immigration 2.In-Migration *Be able to explain each* Hmm… What could the difference be here?
Jobs drew people to cities • Meatpacking plants • Steel mills • Garment factories • Salesclerks • Waiters • Barbers • Bank tellers • Secretaries
Groups Moving to Cities • Immigrants – better lives/ work • Farmers – stable jobs • African Americans – better lives/ opportunities for work
Patterns of City Settlement Cities grew outward from downtown sections THINK POOR MIDDLE CLASS RICH
Poor • Poor families were rooted in the city’s center (old sections) • Streets jammed with people, horses, pushcarts, garbage • People bought out buildings & turned them into factories to maintain cheap rent • Limited space called for tenements
Tenements: small apartments in a city slum building • 6 or 7 stories high, divided into small apartments • No windows, heat or indoor bathrooms • 10 people to a room per usual • Typhoid & cholera spread • Tuberculosis (lung disease) biggest killer • thousands die per year (babies)
Middle Class • Beyond the slums, just surrounding the epicenter (middle) • Doctors, lawyers, business managers, skilled machinists, office workers • Rows of neat houses with trees • Still disease spreads, but less frequently
Middle Class • Leisure activities: sense of community & purpose • Clubs, choirs, bowling teams, charities • “Bring together many people who are striving upward, trying to uplift themselves”
Rich • Outskirts of the city, far ends • Brick walls & iron gates • Mansions on 5th Avenue (NY) • Lakefront property (Chicago) • Modeled lives after European royalty: artwork, parties, cigarettes rolled in $100 bills
Things to Remember: 1. We don’t see each other Friday 2. Your scrapbooks are due Monday - follow directions & rubric {out of 50pts} 3. Our FIRST CULTURAL EXPERIENCE is next Friday!!! - more information to come on Monday… 4. Your unit test will be next Thursday *You now have your 4th “chunk”… all key terms are due test day – no HW passes*