Today we are doing presentations again...Ch. 7.2Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?---immigrants coming to the cites because it was cheaper and more jobs available. Some heard about the technology boom. Farmers came to the cities because they either they went into debt and lost their farms. Others got tired of the railroads taking advantage of them.What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?---overcrowded; sanitary issues;What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?New York and Cleveland were first cities for water works. They had no interior plumbing in 1860.Lots of thieves and pickpocket. Nobody wanted police jobs and crime got bad. Lots of fire and limited water supplies. 1874; automatic sprinklers invented.The settlement house movement; Poor immigrants. Middle class, education. Charles Stover and Stanton Coit found house in 1886.Jane Addams; traveled to Europe and had the idea for house. Started a peace movement. Won the noble peace prize .Ch. 7.3What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?---Organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city. Decades after the Civil war. Orgonized like a pyramid. Not a machine. Political Boss; can or can't be and official mayor. Immigrants in the machines were first or second generation people; not educated beyond grammar school. Entered machine early and worked to the top. Could speak to immigrants.Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.What caused all this corruption in government?What laws came about to reform government?Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president?
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