America’s History Seventh Edition CHAPTER 19 “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, Copyright © 2011 by Bedford/St. Martin’s James A. Henretta Rebecca Edwards Robert O. Self

I. The New Metropolis A.The Shape of the Industrial City 1. Mass Transit and the Suburb 2. Skyscrapers 3. The Electric City

I. The New Metropolis B.Newcomers and Neighborhoods 1. Ethnic Neighborhoods 2. African Americans 3. Tenements

I. The New Metropolis C.City Cultures 1. Urban Amusements 2. Ragtime 3. Sex and the City 4. Urban High Culture 5. Investigative Journalism

II. Governing the Great City A.Urban Machines 1. Tammany Hall 2. Successes and Failures B.The Limits of Machine Government 1. The Depression of the 1890s 2. Programs

III. Cities as Crucibles of Reform A.Public Health 1. Disease 2. Pollution

III. Cities as Crucibles of Reform B.Campaigns Against Urban Prostitution 1. “White Slavery” 2. Vice Commissions

III. Cities as Crucibles of Reform C.The Movement for Social Settlements 1. Hull House 2. Resources and Influence D.City and National Politics 1. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 2. Resulting Reforms