1. Urbanization

2. Urbanization Urbanization definition - Growth of cities
Immigrants and rural Americans flock to cities for jobs
Reaper / Steel Plow
African-Americans migrated north

3. City Advantages Jobs Factories Service industries Open shops
Work in offices (if educated)
Connected by railroads
Travel
Ship goods easier
Women
Find work
Teachers or secretaries
Offered the ability to move up in class
Work hard, make money
Country, (always stay a farmer same class)
Send kids to school
Go see a show, shop, entertainment, churches, social clubs, museums

4. No zoning laws

5. Skyscrapers
17:23 mark

7. Elevator-Elijah Otis

8. Transportation Introduction of Mass Transit
Definition – systems used to move large numbers of people

9. Mass Transportation

10. L&N Railroad Depot

11. Transportation Evansville early 1900s Street Car conductor strike
Car jumps the tracks and wrecks

14. City Problems

15. What is going on in this picture?
You know that kid is about to poke that horse with the stick. Its what little kids do. The poke things.
These types of scenes were common:
Dead horses in the street
Horse maneure
Trash in the street
No running water
People were dirty

16. Housing Tenements Definition – multifamily urban houses
Very overcrowded and unsanitary

17. Why do you think its called a dumbbell?
Multiple families live in these tenements.
Multiple in each apartment.
Many of them would share a common bathroom
They would overflow

18. Jacob Riis Early form of photojournalism in 1890
Exposed tenement living conditions to middle and upper class
Police officer who traveled around taking pictures of tenement living conditions in New York City

19. People living on top of each other
Trash in the street

20. Kids playing in an alley

21. Alley where sewage is dumped
Trash is thrown
People stacked on top of eachother

23. Holes in the wall
Primitive bed
Infested with bugs and rats
Look how dirty everything looks

24. Whole families had to live in one room
Ceiling leaking

25. Living in shacks and huts

26. More shacks and huts

27. Whole family lives in one room
How many people are in this picture
Crammed into two beds

28. Water / Sanitation Poor water quality
Allowed for the spread of cholera and typhoid fever
Sewage flowed through open gutters
Garbage dumped in streets
People living in shotgun houses with no running water
A few feet from each other
Outhouses in the back so all of your waste just goes into a whole
Sewage and garbage everywhere
Animals roaming around
Can you imagined how that smelled

29. Water / Sanitation
How would you like to bathe in that

30. Evansville Waterworks
Originally, water was pumped out of the river and into people’s homes with little or no purification. FEEL THAT!!

31. Chicago Fire Overcrowding, no zoning laws
Building built on top of each other
Fires start and spread very quickly
Houses made out of wood
Flammable shingles

32. 3.3 miles burnt in two days
Killed hundreds of people
Strong winds push flames

33. Crime Dark streets were dangerous at night
Professional Police Officers hired
Chosen by city officials
Created corruption
Gas street lights
Tension between urban groups
Lots of people walking around at night
Poorly lit streets
Easy to commit crimes
Robbery
Violent crimes
Combat this professional police force will be hired
Not just volunteers
At first chosen by city officials making them very corrupt
Invention of gas street lights thwart crime

34. Old Jail – Built in 1891
Castle looking building downtown across from old courthouse
Old jail
Start of Evansville police

35. Evansville’s Finest