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TOPIC 2: Industry and Immigration (1865 -1914) Lesson 5: A Nation of Cities

TOPIC 2: Industry and Immigration (1865 -1914) Lesson 5: A Nation of Cities

Learning Objectives • Analyze urban growth in the late 1800 s. • Explain how

Learning Objectives • Analyze urban growth in the late 1800 s. • Explain how technology improved city life. • Evaluate the problems caused by rapid urban growth and ways that city dwellers tried to solve them.

Americans Migrate to Cities • Urbanization-people living in cities boomed! • Cities offered: •

Americans Migrate to Cities • Urbanization-people living in cities boomed! • Cities offered: • Jobs • Women’s opportunities • Entertainment • By 1900 -urban areas were more than 40% foreign born created ethnic ghettos • Rural-to-urban migrants • Advances in farming technology= not as many farmers needed to produce crops • Weather, isolation on the farms

Americans Migrate to Cities

Americans Migrate to Cities

Americans Migrate to Cities Despite the tedious nature of the work, factories in cities

Americans Migrate to Cities Despite the tedious nature of the work, factories in cities often offered workers more money and opportunities than they had in rural settings.

Americans Migrate to Cities The percentage of the population living in urban areas increased

Americans Migrate to Cities The percentage of the population living in urban areas increased relative to those living in rural areas over several decades. Analyze Graphs What factors account for the demographic shift from rural to urban areas over these decades?

Technology Improves City Life • Skyscrapers mass produced steel! • Electric elevator (Elisha Otis)

Technology Improves City Life • Skyscrapers mass produced steel! • Electric elevator (Elisha Otis) • Mass transit • Electric street cars, subways • Growth of suburbs for middle class • City planning using architecture, sanitation, landscape engineering

Cleveland, Ohio 1900 The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the first building in

Cleveland, Ohio 1900 The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the first building in which a steel frame supported the outside walls, making a taller, stronger building.

Technology Improves City Life

Technology Improves City Life

Urban Living Creates Social Issues • Tenements • Low cost, multiple families • Dirty/unsanitary

Urban Living Creates Social Issues • Tenements • Low cost, multiple families • Dirty/unsanitary cholera epidemics • Water and Sanitation • Streets covered in trash and waste • Fire, crime, and conflict • Fires would sweep cities (the Great Chicago Fire 1871) =fire departments • Crime = professional police • Tension between races =gangs

Quiz: Americans Migrate to Cities How did technological advances in agricultural production push many

Quiz: Americans Migrate to Cities How did technological advances in agricultural production push many farmers to migrate to cities? A. B. C. D. Increasing supplies of food caused prices to drop. Farmers went into debt to pay for new technology. There weren't enough workers to harvest larger crops. New technology demanded workers with appropriate skills.

Quiz: Technology Improves City Life Why were skyscrapers important to cities? A. B. C.

Quiz: Technology Improves City Life Why were skyscrapers important to cities? A. B. C. D. They provided a recognizable skyline. They made cities seem more modern. They efficiently used small amounts of land. Their use of steel benefited the steel industry.

Quiz: Urban Living Creates Social Issues What was the key to preventing outbreaks of

Quiz: Urban Living Creates Social Issues What was the key to preventing outbreaks of cholera in cities? A. B. C. D. less crowded living conditions clean water supplies access to health care development of antibiotics

Topic 2 -6 New Ways of Life

Topic 2 -6 New Ways of Life

Learning Objectives • Explain how technology, new types of stores, and marketing changed Americans'

Learning Objectives • Explain how technology, new types of stores, and marketing changed Americans' standard of living. • Analyze mass culture and education in the late 1800 s. • Describe new popular cultural movements in the late 1800 s.

Free Enterprise Improves Life • The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain 1873 • More

Free Enterprise Improves Life • The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain 1873 • More products + lower prices= conspicuous consumerism • Advertising • Macys- ads with goods in “departments” • Money back guarantee, mail-order business • After Civil War, success=what you can buy • Role of the railroad?

A Mass Culture Develops • Same clothes, same household gadgets across U. S. =

A Mass Culture Develops • Same clothes, same household gadgets across U. S. = mass culture • Newspapers increased (advertisements) • Literature and Arts become popular • Public education expanded 90% literacy rate by 1900 • Link to immigration?

A Mass Culture Develops

A Mass Culture Develops

A Boom in Popular Entertainment • Growth of a middle class with disposable income=

A Boom in Popular Entertainment • Growth of a middle class with disposable income= desire for entertainment • Amusement parks-first rollercoaster at Coney Island, NY • Outdoor events- Buffalo Bill • Vaudeville shows • Spectator sports (football, basketball, baseball etc. ) • Part of the mass culture