1. 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

2. Riis : http://petapixel
Hine:
Gilded Age Mansions

3. Immigration Industrialization
Topic 1: Urbanization

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

10. 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

11. How would these change life in the city?

13. New Technologies
Urbanization was both a cause and a result of new technologies.
How might each of the following technologies relate to urbanization?

14. Bessemer Process -- Steel

15. Light Bulb and more! – Thomas Edison
Menlo Park, NJ: The Invention Factory

16. Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell

17. Airplane – Wright Brothers

18. Assembly Line – Henry Ford

19. 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?

20. Show Safari clip from New York: , Poverty in NY (start at 10:00 of 21 min nd play to end) – Jacob Riis story\
NY Doc: 1:11 to 1:30 (skip Whitman)
Or History of US: Cities (cut out SoL, crime and Triangle)