Chapter 13 Section 2

Urbanization◦ Growth of cities in Midwest and Northeast◦ Why?

1)Farming more efficient (less jobs on farms)2)African Americans move from South 3)Immigrants live in cities (cheapest & convenient)

By 1890 2x as many Irish in NYC than in Dublin, Ireland By 1910 immigrants were more than half of total

population in 18 major US cities Ethnic communities develop in cities

Housing issues◦ Many middle class families left cities as a result

of mass transit systems◦ As a result, their old houses were often divided

up for multiple families Tenements Airshafts filled with garbage

Drinking water◦ Development of piped water and filtered water

slow to come in larger cities◦ Unclean water: cholera and typhoid fever

Lack of Sanitation (spread disease)◦ Sewage often in streets◦ Smoke from factories unfiltered◦ Garbage in streets

Fires Spread Easily◦ Buildings made of wood ◦ Lighting by candles and kerosene in homes◦ Frequent occurrences in large cities (1870s-

1880s) 1871: Great Chicago Fire

◦ Lack of fire departments till 1900

What new technologies helped people in the

late 1800’s get to and from work?

Photo by Jacob Riis portraying tenements

Entitled “Children Sleeping in Mulberry Street” 1890

Entitled “A Cave Dwellar, One of 4 Peddlars Who Slept” 1890

Homeless Children, 1890

Living Conditions for women

Tenement housing from the outside

view

Americanization Movement◦ Attempt to give immigrants opportunities such as

classes in English to help them assimilate. Social Gospel Movement

◦ Salvation through service to urban poor : Protestant ethics

◦ Later contributed to Progressive Movement in early 1900s

◦ Inspired middle class women to get involved in community

◦ Basis: Believe that poverty and the lack of opportunity breed the problems of the ghetto. Ignorance, disease, and crime are the result of economic desperation and not the result of some flaw in moral character.

◦ First woman to win Nobel Peace Prize

Jane Addams 1860-1935Hull House Chicago, Illinois

Founded 1889

◦ Settlement houses Community centers in urban, slum areas Toynbee Hall: London, England Purpose: social responsibility taken for urban poor

◦ Hull House: Chicago Paid for by her inheritance One of first American settlement houses Assisted many immigrants and brought attention to

problems of urbanization Offered dance, school, day-care, music, health

services, etc.