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Immigration to Urbanization
Review of Key
Ideas
1. Innovation,
resources, and government policies encouraged
industrialism.
2. Giants of industry created the Gilded Age.
3. Industrialism had positive and negative effects.
4. Workers responded to industrial conditions by creating
unions.
5. Despite efforts by unions, workers had to continue fighting
bad workplace conditions.
6. One event finally drew attention to the problem of workplace
safety.
7. A new wave of immigrants came to the U.S. at the
beginning of the 20th century, pulled by economic
opportunity and freedom.
8. Old immigrants differed from new immigrants in regards
to their home countries, cultures, and experiences.
9. Early 20th century Americans appreciated New immigrants
for providing a work force and introducing new cultures.
10. Early 20th century Americans disliked New immigrants
because of their cultural differences and competition for jobs
and housing.
Key Ideas
Industrialization,
Immigration, and
Urbanization are interconnected.
What is interconnected?
How does each lead to the others?
Increased
Gilded
URBANIZATION
The rapid growth of cities in response to immigration and
industrialization in America between 1880 and 1920.
More people in
the cities
needed more
build up,
which
provided more
jobs
Urbanization
Increased
populations filled
Provided jobs
which
encouraged more
people to come
Immigration
Skyscrapers building up
Skyscrapers
Streetcars
Electric
Steel
allowed
buildings to go
upward
Provided more work
and living space
transportation
provided faster and
further transit to jobs
Allowed wealthier to
live outside of cities
away from crime,
pollution, and poverty
Suburbs
Impact of Innovations
What
Problems in Cities
Tenement
POLITICAL
MACHINES
City political groups
formed headed by bosses who promised
improved city conditions and jobs to city dwellers in exchange
for votes.
Bosses
gave favors
and used intimidation
and corrupt methods
to control cities.
Boss Tweed of
Tammany Hall in NYC
used corruption to
steal $40 to $200
MILLION from
taxpayers.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT
IT!
Social
DRAWING ATTENTION!
Riis
photographed the
urban dwellings to
show the problems of
the poor in the slums.
Published photographs
and stories of the
people in How the
Other Half Lives.
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