Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
technological improvements, immigrants came over and worked in mills and plants, there was so much racism in the South so African Americans moved to big cities in the North,
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
houses were cramped in the cities, some people had to live on the outskirts of a city, buildings were unsanitary, some people put garbage into air shafts, this brought vermin, the smell was so horrible that they nailed the windows shut, new tenements became worse than the old ones, immigrants were packed tightly together,
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
Social Gospel Movement- attempt to fix the problems in the cities and improve lives of poor people,
Community centers, Locust Street Settlement- first settlement house for African American, by 1910 there were over 400 settlement houses throughout the country.
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