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1 The Age of the City

2 Urbanization MigrationImmigrationAssimilationExclusion American Protective Association Immigration Restriction League

3 Redefining the city Public Parks Frederick Law Olmstead Public cultural centers Philanthropy 1893 Columbian Exposition of Chicago

4 Redefining the City Housing Developments Suburbs Tenement buildings Jacob Riis InfrastructureTransportation Roads & bridges Brooklyn Bridge Skyscrapers

5 Tenement Building in New York

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7 Child Labor in the Textile Mills

8 Frederick Law Olmstead

9 Jacob Riis’ Photographs

10 Children on the street

11 The Bar Room

12 Impoverished Workers

13 Brooklyn Bridge

14 Problems of the City Disasters Great Fires ChicagoEarthquakes

15 “There’ll be a hot time in the ole town tonight”

16 Great Chicago Fire

17 Great White City—Rebuilding for World’s Fair 1893

18 San Francisco Earthquake 1906

19 Earthquake 1906

20 Problems of the city (con’t) Department of Water Works Medical and sanitation advances Medical and sanitation advancesCrimePoverty “deserving poor” Salvation Army Crime rate increases Political machine William M. Tweed

21 Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall

22 Boss Tweed

23 Tweed a favorite of Thomas Nast


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