6.2: I. Problems of Urbanization

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6.2 I. Problems of Urbanization

• Rapid growth of American cities lead to promise
  and problems of urbanization

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A. Urban Opportunity

• Urbanization
• Rapid growth of a city
• Who moved into the cities?
• Immigrants
• Rural Americans
• Why the cities?
• Cheap and convenient
• jobs
• Cultural diversity

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B. Changing Cities

• Building up instead of out ?
• Chicago the first skyscraper w/ Home Ins.
  Building, 1885 10 stories!

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• Dubai, 2009
• 2,717 ft

• Chicago, 1884
• 183 ft

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C. Transportation

• Development public transportation
• Horse cars
• Street cars
• L/Subway
• Benefits?

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D. Separation by Class

• High Society
• Built wherever they wanted spared no expense
• House servants
• Middle Class
• Moved to suburbs
• Professionals doctors, lawyers, etc.
• Working class
• Lived in tenements
• Rented space to supplement income

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D. Separation by Class

• http//www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera
  /tenemen
• tinteriors.html

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E. Neighborhoods
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F. The Family Economy

• White native-born men earned more
• In most cases, entire family worked
• White native-born women more educated
• Teachers, clerical
• domestic service
• Elderly and disabled

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F. The Family Economy

• The working family

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G. Crime

1. Increase population increased crime
2. Immigrants taken advantage of
3. Police dept. developed

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I. Sanitation

• Garbage on street a health concern
• 1895

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J. Water

• Needed to be clean and accessible
• Chlorination and filtration
• limits spread of diseases

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II. Political Machines

• are running the cities

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A. Political Machines

1. Informal political group designed to gain and
   keep power. Ran by a party boss
2. Tammany Hall NY Democratic political machine
   led by Boss Tweed
3. Graft took bribes

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Political Machines

• Helped government
  officials/themselves
  get elected
• Helped immigrants
  get jobs, homes in
  return for votes

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Thomas Nast Political Cartoonist