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
2. Triangle Shirtwaste Fire - American Experience
vHW:
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A. Finish Triangle Shirtwaste video
B. Using this website about the legacy of the fire, write a 1/2 page to one page explanation of the LEGACY of the Triangle Shirtwaste Fire. Most specifically, what legislative reforms resulted from the fire, and what impact did it have on the work done by labor unions, namely the ILGWU?
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2. Triangle Shirtwaste Fire - American Experience
vHW:
v
A. Finish Triangle Shirtwaste video
B. Using this website about the legacy of the fire, write a 1/2 page to one page explanation of the LEGACY of the Triangle Shirtwaste Fire. Most specifically, what legislative reforms resulted from the fire, and what impact did it have on the work done by labor unions, namely the ILGWU?
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