Took Quiz today
7.2-The Challenges of Urbanization
Most Immigrants settled in cities because they were cheaper and could find more jobs in the city because they worked for little money. There were many challenges like housing, transportation, water, sanitation, etc. Housing options for working class: house on the outskirts of town causing problems with transportation, rent a small room in a boarding house.
Transportation inventions- Street Cars in 1873 in San Francisco, Electric Subway in Boston, 1897, There was many struggles with repairing mass transportation, and there was a demand for mote transit systems that they couldn't provide.
Water- Most homes didn't have indoor plumbing so they couldn't get water through their home, people had to get water from faucets on the street, 1870s filtration and chlorination in 1908
Sanitation- there was no sewage systems and no trash collection so they lived in filth, Sewer lines and sanitation departments created in 1900
Crime- their was no real way to stop crime because they did not have records of people so if they got in trouble they would leave the city and change their names.
Settlement Houses- Reformers established settlement houses in the late 1800s. they were community centers in bad neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area. they were run by middle class college educated women that provided education.
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