Monday September 19

[0Lindsey]

-Skim/read Chapter, read you section, outline of Info/ key topics, put together powerpoint-4 sources, text book, wikipedia, and two others put in daily blog-key things and explain them on monday-go to history page and class summary for September 15 to see key topics and look at what is needed start with these topics the topics are right off of the tests-my group is me , melissa, colin, andrew-chapter 7-section twoCh. 7.2Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?urbanization, cheapest, covenient places to live, jobsWhat problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?house in city which is crouded or house have house on the edge of town and have transportation problems, old transportaion didnt' really get repaired just built new ones,supply of safe drinking water, providing hygenic living conditions, theives, too small of police forces, fires spreading not enough waterWhat did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?settlement houses, middle class college educated women provided educational, cutural, social services, english, health, painting, college extension courses, nurses,Outline Section 2 Chapter 7~The Challenges of UrbanizationAmerican StoryJacob Riisage 21police reporterjob took him to worst slums with overcrowded, airless, fithly tenementsurban population exploded from 10 million to 54 million between 1870 and 1920-Urban Opportunities19 century technological boom resulted with urbanization-Immigrants Settle in Citiesimmigrants became became city dwellerscities cheapest and convenient place to liveoffered unskilled laborers steady jobs1890 two times as many irish resident in NYC as in Dublin, Ireland1910 immigrant families more than half the total population of 18 major cities in Americaprograms provided for immigrants for skills of citizenship, such as English literacy and Ameircan history and government, fooking, social etiquetteimmigrants didn't want to abondend tradition- Migration From Country to Cityimprovements in farming technologymccormick reaper and steel plowfewer laborersfarms mergedrural people moved to cities to find work-Urban Problems-Housing-Transportation-Water-Sanitation-Crime-Fire-Reformers Mobilize-The Settlement House MovementBold Wordsurbanization- growth of citiesAmericanization movement - designed to assimilate people of wide ranging cultures into the dominant cultureTenements- multifamily urban dwellingsmass transitchlorination - method of purifying water by mixing it with the chemical chlorinechlorinationSocial gospel movementsettlement housesJane Adams