 What is the difference between  Equality of opportunity  Equality of outcome How would you define equality?

Gilded: gold and glitter on the outside; empty, corrupt on the inside.

New York Mansions

Reasons for growth: I. Increased immigration many lacked money to buy farms, so stayed in cities II. Rural Americans moved to cities fewer people need on the farms… machines did the work.

Developing Cities crowding: skyscrapers steel made it possible to build tall buildings mass transit: horse cars, then electric trolley cars subways tenements and ghettos: infrastructure needed: paved Streets, sewers, street lights,etc

 A multi-unit dwelling consisting several apartments.

At the turn of the twentieth century almost half of the American population were living in tenement buildings.

 Poor immigrants flocked to tenements as places to live.  Appealing to immigrants because of the low cost.  Uncovered by muckraker, Jacob Riis, tenements usually had many delinquents and organized crime.

Many were as small as 325 square feet There would be people living in one space.

 There were no laws to enforce living standards.  All that was necessary was a fire escape and one outhouse for every twenty people.  So many people live in each that they became filthy.  Public baths were made as a result of poor hygiene.

 Four families would fit in an area fit for one family.  Multiple children slept in one bed which helped with the heat issues in the winter.

Seventy out of one hundred deaths in the 1840’s were among people living in tenements. Most of them occurred in children. Crowding caused disease to spread much more easily throughout the tenements.

 There have been laws passed to improve conditions in apartments today drastically.  Many good sized apartments are between square feet.  They normally do not hold nearly as many people as tenements did.

Efforts to solve problems Settlement Houses: Community centers for the poor provided day care, recreation, English lessons, hygiene, cooking Jane Addams opens the 1 st settlement house in USA: Hull House … Chicago slums

 Define all of the terms in the section  Why did immigrants tend to group together in the cities?  What housing problems did urban working- class families face?  How did conditions in cities affect people’s health?  #4 Evaluating on page 451  Which problems from this time period do people still face today?