1. “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities
James A. Henretta
Eric Hinderaker
Rebecca Edwards
Robert O. Self
America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition
CHAPTER 19
“Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and
Reform of Industrial Cities
1880–1917
Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. I. The New Metropolis
A. The Shape of the Industrial City 1. Mass Transit 2. Skyscrapers 3. The Electric City

3. I. The New Metropolis
B. Newcomers and Neighborhoods 1. Ethnic neighborhoods 2. African Americans 3. Tenements 3

4. I. The New Metropolis
C. City Cultures 1. Urban Amusements 2. Ragtime and City Blues 3. Sex and the City

5. I. The New Metropolis C. City Cultures (cont.) 4. High Culture
5. Urban Journalism

6. II. Governing the Great City
A. Urban Machines 1. Tammany Hall 2. Successes and failures

7. II. Governing the Great City
B. The Limits of Machine Government 1. The Depression of the 1890s 2. Programs

8. III. Crucibles of Progressive Reform
A. Fighting Dirt and Vice 1. Cleaning Up Urban Environments 2. Closing Red Light Districts

9. III. Crucibles of Progressive Reform
B. The Movement for Social Settlements 1. Hull House 2. Resources and influence

10. III. Crucibles of Progressive Reform
C. Cities and National Politics 1. Triangle Shirtwaist fire 2. Resulting reforms