Urban Problems
Disease that spread due to poor sanitation.
Disease cholera
Mass movement of people from rural to urban areas
What is urbanization
This British author wrote "Oliver Twist" exposing the harsh conditions of child labor and poverty?
Who is Charles Dickens?
This new social class emerged, made up of factory owners and businessmen
Who is the middle class
These crowded housing units were home to many urban factory workers
What are tenements?
Basic infrastructure lacking cities?
Sewage systems and clean water.
What is overcrowded housing in industrial cities
What are the slums
This reformer established New Lanark, model industrial community with better working conditions
Who is Robert Own?
These public green spaces were created to give urban workers a place for recreation
What are public parks
These entertainment venues featured popular music and variety shows for working class people
What are music halls
Toxic air condition from coal burning.
The city know as Cottonoplis
What is manchester
This women led factory inspections wrote about working conditions in "Life in the Iron Mills"
Who is Rebecca Harding Davis?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities for factory work
What is urbanization
This social activity/sport became popular amoung workers, with teams often formed at factories
What is football/soccer?
Young workers who cleaned machines
Child labores
What was the worlds largest city by 1900
What is London
Some key socail reformers were
Who is Charles Dickens?
Deadley London smoke and fog mixture
The great smog
Reformer who wrote " How the other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis
What laws were intorduced as part of social reforms?
What is factory acts, mines, acts, education acts, and public health acts