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 – Stamp Act – Articles of Confederation – Louisiana Purchase – House of Burgess established – Kansas-Nebraska Act – Emancipation Proclamation

2. Bell Ringer What are 3 technologies we discussed last class, and what was their impact? Name 2 other technologies we have discussed so far in this class. Can you think of any from before 1850? Before 1800?

3. Immigration Industrialization

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

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: 1865-1989, Poverty in NY (start at 10:00 of 21 min nd play to end) – Jacob Riis story