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Objective 5.01. Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life. Urban Issues….Housing.
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Objective 5.01 Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.
Urban Issues….Housing • Settlement Houses: concerned w/ urban poverty. Those connected to universities settled students in slum areas to live and work alongside local people. Est. for edu., savings, sports, and arts. • Jane Addams: (1860-1935) founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement and first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Urban Issues….Housing • Dumbbell Tenements: 1879 law required every inhabitable room have a window. Called "dumbbell tenements" after the shape of the building footprint. Built in great # to accommodate waves of immigrating Europeans. • Sweatshops: term describing a manufacturing facility, usu. garments, where working conditions are poor and workers are paid little.
Urban Issues….Transportation • Elevator: transport device used to move goods or people vertically. • Electric Trolleys: rail vehicle, lighter than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within a city. Powered by electrical line above the trolley.
The Rise of Ethnic Neighborhoods • Jacob Riis: muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer. Used photographic and journalistic talents to help less fortunate in NYC. One of 1st photographers to use flash. • Ellis Island: at mouth of Hudson River in NY Harbor, at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the U.S. from Jan. 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954.
Chinese Exclusion Act: 1st significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history. U.S. fed. law passed on May 6, 1882. Allowed the U.S. to suspend Chinese immigration. Lasted over 60 years. Culture Shock: feeling of anxiety when operating within a different society. Cultural Pluralism: when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities. Urbanization: redistribution of populations from the country to cities. Nativism: opposition to immigration or dislike of foreigners. Melting Pot: metaphor for way in which homogeneous societies develop, in which the ingredients in the pot (people of different cultures, races and religions) are combined so as to develop a multi-ethnic society. The Rise of Ethnic Neighborhoods
New Forms of Leisure • Telephone: device which is used to transmit and receive sound (usu. speech). • Alexander Graham Bell: most often associated with the invention of the telephone. • Thomas Edison: an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.
New Forms of Leisure • Typewriter: device w/ a set of "keys" that cause characters to be printed on a document, usu. paper. • Amusement Parks: collection of rides and entertainment attractions assembled for purpose of entertaining large groups of people.
New Forms of Leisure • Spectator Sports: ex: basketball, baseball, football, soccer, hockey. (not hunting) • Frederick Olmsted: an American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC. (also the Biltmore Estate)
Of what is this a picture?How can you tell?Why is there only women in the pic?
Of what is this a picture?How is the picture affected by technology?
What do you think the pic is depicting?Would you walk through the alley?Why do you think Riis took this photo?