Today we finished our video and took notes on it.
- 95% of the people here now, were not here 250 years ago
- By the end of the 20th century, there is more Italians in New York than in Rhome
- Steel was important because it allowed the people to build higher for the cities’ skyscrapers.
- Andrew Carnagain was looking at a new way to make steel for the buildings
- By 1825, his furnaces were ready to test. They were a success
- Nothing (cars, buildings ex.) could not be built without steel
- By the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the wealthiest man in America.
- ‘Walking the steel’ is when the construction workers (that built the skyscrapers) had to balance themselves on the steel.
- It was a very very dangerous job that paid $4 a day (2 times minimum)
- Before the elevator, most buildings stopped at 5 floors
- In the 1840’s, crime and poverty crowded the streets
- In Chicago you could rent a gun for 12 hours. In the sears catalog, you could buy one for $12
- Gangsters came about at this time
- There is no ID, or birth certificates.
- Mugshots changed a lot. They made it much easier for people to catch the criminals
- ‘Slumlife’ : Multiple families were crammed into one room. waste was in the streets. No internal plumbing.
- A man showed the wealthy the ‘slumlife’ with photographs. This was the first step in ‘tackling’ the ‘slums’.
- More than one million diseases because of the filth in the cities.
- 2,000 workers in white cleaned up the ‘slum’ places.
- Warry: first economical warrior. Saved thousands of lives.
- Thomas Edison was taken out of school as a boy but still invents.
- Invented the electric light bulb with Carbonized cardboard. It burned for 3 hundred hours
- Within 2 years, he built more than 5,000 power plants for big cities
- As electricity comes to the cities, more and more people come with it
- By 1929, The us is spending 20 billion $ on already made clothes
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