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UNIT #3 – URBANIZATION LESSON #3 - Urban Growth ( )

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1 UNIT #3 – URBANIZATION LESSON #3 - Urban Growth (118-121)

2 New Plan for Composition Book:
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What were some of the problems associated with the fast growth of cities? What were the conditions of a home for a poor person in the city? NEW VOCABULARY Urban Skyscraper Tenement Political machine Graft

3 Italian Immigrants Why are we concerned with the Italian immigration at the end of the 1800s? Why did most Italian immigrants become poor factory workers?

4 Problems of Urbanization
Read p. 120 List the five problems associated with city living and urban growth.

5 The “political machine”
Read p Define the term “political machine.” What did the immigrant gain from this system? Why did the “political boss” help immigrants and the poor?

6 City Living… What can you tell about cities in the late 1800s from these pictures? (put your answer here)

7 What was different about Upper and Middle class?

8 Tenement Living Describe a “tenement.”
What would make it uncomfortable, and even unsafe?

9 The Extreme Poor in America
How was life for the poorest Americans different than the Middle class?


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