This section is about the challenges with urbanization. There was many immagrants that started to come to the U.S. may it have been for adventure, religious freedoms, criminal freedoms, and many other reasons. The thing that stood out to me in theis section was the problems that came up with this rapid urbanization. There was lack of housing, transportaion, water, crime. and what I think is the worst is sanitation.
Lack of housing, where so many people would be crammed into small buildings and rooms was terrible living conditions. Transportation improved for a bit with the introduction of the subway and street cars, but then there was the failure to mantain the conditioni of these new things so they could become dangerous and discustiong. There was also a lack of access to water, and those who got water usually didn't get clean water and they could get sick from it easily. Since there was so many people crime was becoming easier, anybody could just grab a man's wallet from his pocket while crowded in a street car and he would never notice. This all shows how crowded the people were which made the sanitation horrible. There wasn't a place to put garbage, there were no sewer systems, and factories just had smoke pouring into the skies. Luckily around the 1900's many cities started to develop sewer systems.
I think that these living conditions seem unreachable by our minds of this day. Somewhere in the world though there really are people who still have these problems. We should really be greatful for what we have because unlike otehr countries we evolved out of this and into better living conditions.-Breann Lehr
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