Industrialization and Urbanization Part I Negative Effects US

Industrialization and Urbanization Part I: Negative Effects US History Spiconardi

URBANIZATION • Urbanization process by which more of a nations population becomes concentrated in cities • Why? – – Factories built in the cities Job opportunities Immigrants seek jobs & settle in cities Rural farmers come to the cities

Urbanization: Negative Effects

Urbanization: Negative Effects • Housing – Not enough affordable housing to keep up with the population – Many forced into homelessness or tenements • Tenements inner-city multi unit dwellings (4 -6 stories high) – Usually divided and re-divided. – http: //www. tenement. org/Virtual_Tour/index_vi rtual. html

Tenements

Tenements • What are some problems that the tenement living conditions caused? • Why would people live in such conditions?

Urbanization: Negative Effects • Crime – Due to poverty crime increases in the urban centers of America • 1881: 25 murders per 1 million people • 1898: 107 murders per 1 million people • Health – – Tuberculosis Cholera Typhoid Diphtheria

Urbanization: Negative Effects • Political Machines – Tammany Hall • In return for votes, bosses provided jobs, built parks, distributed food & clothing to the needy, but… • UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY • “When you’ve voted ‘em with their whiskers on, you take ‘em to a barber and scrape off the chin fringe. Then you voted ‘em again…Then to a barber again, off comes the sides and you vote ‘em a third time with the mustache…Then clean off the mustache and vote ‘em plain face. That makes every one of ‘em for four votes. ”