1. Cities
The Rise

2. Urbanization (Growing Cities)
Technological Boom
Industry
Urbanization (Growing Cities)
Why?

3. Moving to the City Immigrants flock to cities Where they landed
Cheap and convenient
Jobs
Americanization movement
Assimilate into America
Rural move to cities
Efficient technology = less labor
Southern African Americans
Violence and discrimination
Moving to the City

4. Gangs of New York

5. Brainstorm some problems that may arise in cities
Brainstorm some problems that may arise in cities. Think of the following factors:
Built fast
Lots of people
Looking for profit

6. Problems Housing Tenements Jacob Riis Transportation Mass Transit
Street Cars
Water
Sanitation
Crime
First full time police force
Fire
First full time fire department
Problems

7. Reforms Social Gospel Movement Salvation through service
Settlement houses
Jane Addams
Reforms

8. Jacob Riis “How The Other Half Lives”
Photographs exposing life in the slums
Jacob Riis