Posted by 4Danielle on October 16, 2009 at 11:00am
Megan, 7-2Water,New york and Cleland were the first cities to pit in waterworks.Bathing, they would have to take a bucket from outside then warm it up.And they had a filter thing so it would be cleaner.Because so many people lived in the city, there were a lot of crimes,, and they had enough people to be police officers.. But nobody wanted too. So it didn’t really matter if they didn’t find someone or something.They had a lot of fires in the city, because buildings would be made out of wood. Most of firefighters were volunteers.1874 came up with automatic sprinklers.The settlement house movement,Houses for like widow women, and poor immigrants, there were teachers to teach them how to do things.People can go into house and can sleep and eat and stuff.1910 there were four hundred houses in the countryJane aadamsToynbee hallWon the peace prize, after she helped the poor.Dasja 7-3 Immigrants and urbanization.Emergence of political machines.-organized group who control (next sentance)..organized group that controlled the activities of a politican party in a city, like faith.Decades after the cilvil war so they were trying to find a new structure.organized like a pyrimid, so if you were at the top it would be like the boss. and at the bottom would be the men.Political boss.may or may not be officially mayor.access to municipal jobs or busnissess licenses.influence in court and big afencies.roscoe conklin;parks, sewer systems, waterworksgave money to schools, hospitals, orphanges.new businesses government support paid well.immigrants and the machine.first/second generationnot educated beyond grammer school.entered early worked to the topthey so called provided solution, like the boss would provide water and food and all that stuff.for votes to provide the most important needs.business buys influence.emplyees no longer campaign.turned wealth business owners
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