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The Challanges of Urbanization
Urban opportunities
urbanization- the growth of cities mostly in the regions of northeast and midwest
most of the immigrants who came to the US in the late 1900s became dwellers because cities were the cheapest and mnost convenient places to live
by 1910 immmigrant familieas made up more than half of the total population of 18 major cities
The Americanization mo vement was designed to assimilate people of wide ranging cultgure in the dominant culture
cooking and social etiquette was included in the ciriculum to help newcomers learn new ways of the native born americans
the neighborhoods became very overcrowed, a problem tghat intensified at the arrical of new transplants from americas rural areas
improvements in the fcarming community was good news
some nventions were McCormick reaperf and steel plow
Urban Problems
the urban population grew so mujch becauzse the gov was facing problems providing necesities for residents
the industry ages began and working class families had two housing options. Either buy a house on the outskirts of town or rent a room at the boarding house.
the people outside of town had problems with transportation. When the urban population grew they started new ways of housing like row housing and single family dwellings
Mass Transit- transportatoin designed to carry large amounts of people
street cars were introduced to san fran in 1873
deadly fires often broke out during earthquakes in san fran.
it was hard to keep cities clean when the population grew
Reformers Mobilize
an earlt reform program, the Social Gospel Movement, preached salvation through service to the poor
In the late 1800s a few reformers established settlement houses, communitry centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area, especially immigerants.
run largly by middle class, college educationed women, settlement houses provided educational, cultural, and social services
settle ment hourses in the US were founded by Charles Stover and Stanton Coit in NYCin 1886
by 1910 about fourhundred settrlement houses were poerating in cities across the country
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