1. Today’s Questions
How did industrialization and inventions affect cities?
Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a tenement.
How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?

2. Vocabulary
urbanization – growth of cities because of industrial jobs and improved transportation

3. Vocabulary
tenement – an apartment house that is run-down and overcrowded

4. Vocabulary
slum – neighborhood of overcrowded and dangerous tenements

5. Vocabulary
settlement houses – helped improve the lives of the poor & immigrants by providing daycare, education, and healthcare in settlement houses.

6. Vocabulary
political machine – corrupt organization that controlled local governments by giving food, jobs, bribes, and favors to voters

7. Living Conditions in the Gilded Age

10. Cities Change Urbanization Growth of cities because of Industry
New factory jobs
New people
Immigrants
Ex-Farmers

11. Cities Change Technology Steel in skyscrapers Electricity Elevators
Streetcars

12. Life in the City Tenement Run-down and overcrowded apartment house
Old buildings + Landlord neglect Poor design + Little government control = Dangerous conditions
No running water

17. Today’s Questions
How did industrialization and inventions affect cities?
Write 5 adjectives that describe what it was like to live in a tenement.
How did settlement houses and political machines affect cities?

18. How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

21. Life in the City Slums Neighborhood of tenement buildings
Trash thrown between buildings

30. Reforms Social gospel movement
Improve lives of the poor
Abolish child labor
Settlement houses offered services for poor and immigrants
Daycare
Education
Health care
Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago

31. Political Machines Political machine
Controls local government by trading favors for votes
Positives
Built parks, schools, sewers, and orphanages
Help immigrants get started
Negatives
Dishonest elections
Bribery
Jobs and food only to supporters

32. Today’s Questions Why did/do immigrants come to the US?
Who were the “new immigrants” during the Gilded Age?

33. push factors – forces that drive people out of their native lands such as population growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, the Industrial Revolution, and religious/political turmoil. 
pull factors – forces that draw people toward a new place. The three main pull factors for the US were freedom, economic opportunity, and abundant land.

34. new immigrants – immigrants to America from southern and eastern Europe around/after The largest groups were southern Italians, Jews, Catholics, Poles, and Russians.