Posted by 3Taylor on September 30, 2011 at 12:19pm
Continuing presentations today with Taylor finishing her's and then going into my section.Ch. 7.2Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?-immigrants came because they were the cheapest, offered laborers and steady jobs, schools, religion, culture, tradition, language-people moving from the country to the city-farmers moved because they lost their jobsWhat problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?-when people moved in there wernt enough houses for everybody-NY City passed a law where the house had to have airshafts, the garbage picked up, and some kind of plumbing-transportation-mass transit, 1873 street cars, electric subways in Boston in 1897-the water wasnt good and they would get diseases from it because it wasnt clean and filtered-there was a lot of crime when people started moving-fire -- no water, wook housing, candles proposed fireWhat did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?-Jane Adams was concerned about the cities problems and the poverty-Social Gospel Movement was an orginization that preached salvation to the people-this group tried to reach out to the people
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