Years
How was the 1900s
Peaceful
What was a Slum
Slum is defined as a group of people living under the same lacking one roof
How much did city grow
Cities grew by about 15 million people before 1900 Most of the people were immigrants
What was the most city's that grew
Urbanization grew in the major cities in the north like New York, Detroit, and Chicago.
Why was immigrants traveling to America
Immigrants were traveling to America to escape poverty and find better schooling/ job opportunities.
What happen in 1876
The founding of National League started professional baseball
How many houses were slums
Just under 1-in-4 urban dwellers live in slum households
Transports
More transportation presents
Trolleys, subways and cable cars
What happened with the jobs
With all of the growth in the cities, stores all started to grow and with that a lot of low wage jobs filled.
How many immigrants came
Over 25 million immigrants came to the US
What happen in 1885
Chicago builds its first 10-story skyscraper
Is slums good thing or bad
Bad because, weak build quality and often associated with poverty
What was build
There were skyscrapers being built
Where was it spreading in the US
Urbanization is spreading across the western world and it is starting to take hold in the developing world.
What was the majority of immigrants made up of
The majority of them were made up of Jewish people.
What happened in 1887
The electric trolley is invented by Frank Spargue
Was it overcrowded
It was very overcrowded with how many people were slums
Where were immigrants populated
Mostly immigrants populated the neighborhood
What year was it spreading the most
In 1880, it was much faster in the Northeastern, because it was driven by the Second Industrial Revolution.
What did the immigrants do when they got to the US
The immigrants were looking for jobs to be able to make enough money to be able to buy land.
What happened in 1895
Coney Island (an amusement park) opens
Where is the most biggest part of the world
India leads with approximately 262 million slum inhabitants, followed by other nations such as Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan
What house were started to appear
Suburbs were beginning to appear on the outskirts of cities
Mostly tenement houses and rental apartments
Southern spread after what
Southern experienced rapid industrialization after World War 2
How did immigrants contribute to urbanization?
Created a huge demand for the increased production of the emerging industrial sector