2. Overview Readings
3. "How the Other Half Lives" - Jacob Riis (muckraker)
3.
Lure of Cities:
· Natural increase (least significant)
· Immigration from rural America and foreign countries
o
Modern
conveniences
o
Entertainment
o
Culture
o
Economic/job
opportunities
o
“better life”
· Women
o
Great economic
freedom
o
Less moral
judgment
· New Forms of Transportation
o
Railroad
o
Steam-powered
ocean liners
Migrations
· From rural America
o
Industrial farming
displaced women
o
Industrial
manufacturing destroyed cottage industries
o
Southern Blacks
· From Foreign Nations
o
28 million
immigrants from 1860-1920
§ largest % (by 1890 almost 50%) were from Southern and
Eastern Europe: Italy, Greece, Slovaks, Slavs, Russia, Russia, Jews, Armenians
§ Most were poor and uneducated and moved to industrial
cities to find unskilled labor opportunities
§ Many cities immigrant groups formed tight-knit
communities to cope with new life (immigrant ghettos)
§ Immigrants fought constant struggle between maintaining
home culture and assimilation
§ Many native born Americans reacted negatively to
immigrants
· Provoked fear and resentment - Nativism
· Groups form to resist immigration
o
American Protective
Association
o
Immigration
Restriction League
§ Many Americans supported immigration
o
Big business
supported the large, cheap labor supply
o
Political
Machines: ex. Tammany Hall
Urban Problems
· Fire
· Disease
· Pollution
o
Disposal of
human/animal waste into water supplies
o
Air quality –
factories, homes, trains, offices – smog
o
Industrial Waste –
chemicals, lead, ceramic dust
o
Government created
the Public Health Service to address such issue – public health was government
responsibility
· Poverty – large populations created unemployment and
poverty
· Crime
· Political Machines
4. Work on travel brochures
HW - travel brochures due 1/27
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