finished blog discussion from yesterday.
blog assignment due monday-family history!!
Social Darwinism.
- believe that only the rich people will succeed in life.
- poor people deserve to fail.
- charlies Darwin invented this.
- SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!
Pittick nation.
- married young.
- very wealthy in Portland.
- everything was a different style.
- you can go tour it now.
- a museum.
- 42 bedrooms
- 8 children.
- been in 5 different movies. (the house and the location.)
john D. Rockefeller.
- started a partnership with a friend.
- was an oil company.
- hit it off really well.
- died one of the richest men in the world.
Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
- the technological boom.
- city dwellers.
- worked in mills and plants.
What problems did cities face due to the rapid increase in population?
- racial problems.
- Americanization act.
- housing was tight. (tenements, row housing!)
- were not very clean.
- some people put garbage into air shafts.
- disease spread quickly.
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
- The social Gospel movement was an attempt to fix problems in the cities.
- wanted to improve the lives of poor people.
- settlement houses were made to help the people in bad areas.
- was like a community center.
- many workers lived in the settlement houses.
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