Bell Ringer Timeline Practice: List these events in your notebook, numbered 1-7 in chronological order. Try to add the date (or decade) if you can. Jim Crow Laws enacted Stamp Act Articles of Confederation Louisiana Purchase House of Burgesses established Kansas-Nebraska Act Emancipation Proclamation
Riis : http://petapixel Hine: http://petapixel.com/2013/09/07/lewis-hines-photography-end-child-labor-united-states/ Gilded Age Mansions
Immigration Industrialization Topic 1: Urbanization
Urbanization and Growth of Cities Population growth in the East led to the growth of cities – Why these? Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York Detroit Cleveland New York Chicago Pittsburgh
Urbanization and Growth of Cities Reasons for urbanization: Specialized industries developed around natural resources or transportation (water, rail) steel Pittsburgh meat-packing Chicago Created factories demand for labor Millions of new immigrants Americans moving from rural to urban areas looking for jobs
Urbanization and Growth of Cities Factories in large cities provided jobs Results of rapid industrialization and urbanization Overcrowded neighborhoods Unsanitary living conditions, especially for immigrant families and poor workers Unsafe working conditions
Urbanization and Growth of Cities The rapid growth of cities caused housing shortages and the need for new public services, such as sewage water systems public transportation – trolleys and streetcars
How would these change life in the city?
New Technologies Urbanization was both a cause and a result of new technologies. How might each of the following technologies relate to urbanization?
Bessemer Process -- Steel
Light Bulb and more! – Thomas Edison Menlo Park, NJ: The Invention Factory
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Airplane – Wright Brothers
Assembly Line – Henry Ford
Urbanization Wrap-Up Why did big cities develop in this period? What were some of the problems that were associated with cities? What are some of the technologies that made urbanization possible? What are some technologies that became necessary because of cities?
Show Safari clip from New York: 1865-1989, Poverty in NY (start at 10:00 of 21 min nd play to end) – Jacob Riis story\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04 NY Doc: 1:11 to 1:30 (skip Whitman) Or History of US: Cities (cut out SoL, crime and Triangle)